| Writing Lives: Principia Biographica Contributor(s): Edel, Leon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393303829 ISBN-13: 9780393303827 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Principia Biographica |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.53" W x 8.26" (0.77 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography--an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the novelist. Mr. Edel includes a history of the art of biography since Boswell, criticism of some of the best-known biographers, advice for the biographer on documentation and the use of psychological theory, and a discussion of what Edel calls the supreme problem in biography--transference, the life-writer's emotional involvement with his or her subject. |