Rana Tekcan

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Too Far for Comfort: A Study on Biographical DistancePaperback, 1 August 2015

Too Far for Comfort: A Study on Biographical Distance
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Part of Series
Studies in English Literatures
Print Length
186 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Ibidem Press
Date Published
1 Aug 2015
ISBN-10
3838207351
ISBN-13
9783838207353

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The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is structured by accurate historical facts. But its spirit lies elsewhere. Rana Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate "life" across time and space. She looks at their illusionary art through the narrative strategies in Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, James Boswell's Life of Johnson, Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey, Park Honan's Jane Austen, and Andrew Motion's Keats. She notes three types of distance in biographical narrative: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases, by hundreds of years.

Product Details

Author:
Rana Tekcan
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 August 2015
Dimensions:
20.57 x 14.73 x 1.27 cm
ISBN-10:
3838207351
ISBN-13:
9783838207353
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
186
Publisher:
Weight:
204.12 gm

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