| Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding Contributor(s): Ellis, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415928478 ISBN-13: 9780415928472 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: Literary Lives is a biographer's analysis of literary biography. David Ellis here explains how biographers try to understand the lives of their subjects. Ellis ranges from Dr Johnson to the present, touching upon books by and about Jean-Paul Sartre, Dickens, James, Flaubert, Woolf, Plath, Greene, Orwell, Yeats, Hemingway, and even such non-literary figures as Mozart, Picasso, and Cezanne. With great clarity Ellis analyzes four models that underlie biographical interpretation: the familial, the psychological, the medical, and the sociological. Each has yielded fascinating insights in the hands of skilled biographers. Literary Lives offers our first map of the biographer's workshop, showing the student and casual reader alike how the biographer approaches the challenges of the genre. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 809.935 |
| LCCN: 00044631 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.37" W x 9.5" (1.00 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |