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Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding

Autor David Ellis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2000
This book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415928472
ISBN-10: 0415928478
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Among his books is D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922-1930, the acclaimed third volume of the writer's biography

Recenzii

"His [David Ellis] alternate damning and praising will send many readers to the library or bookstores and may even provoke a few to attempt Sartre's nearly 3,000 pages on Gustave Flaubert--The Family Idiot--a book that Mr. Ellis makes fascinating even if he admits many deem its details unreadable." -- Chronicle of Higher Education
"Ellis's committment to exploring the fundamentally characteristic interpretation of life writing and life drives this study...Ellis helps us understand the importance of cross-examining inert assumptions and complacencies regarding life writing, not simply for the sake of this genre as such, but also for life itself, and for their complex yet essential relationship By bringing questioning awareness to biography and our participation in it whether as writers or readers we can in short do something that really matters." -- Biography

Cuprins

Preface Chapter 1. Lives without Theory Chapter 2. Biography and Explanation Chapter 3. Ancestors Chapter 4. Primal Scenes Chapter 5. Body Matters Chapter 6. The Sociological Imagination Chapter 7. History, Chance, and Self-determination Chapter 8. Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies Chapter 9. 'Dignity and Uses of Biography' Notes Index