Too Far for Comfort (ePub)
A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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- Autor: Rana Tekcan
- 2015, 1 Auflage, 186 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: ibidem
- ISBN-10: 3838267354
- ISBN-13: 9783838267357
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2015
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“Tekcan's initial question—asking what it is that brings life writing to life—is an interesting one, and her case studies yield some glancing insights, particularly in the discussion of more recent biographies.”- Biography 34.4“This readable account contains a useful introduction to Boswell and Johnson, friendship, writing, and loyalty [...]”- Year’s Work in English Studies 2012
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