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Overview"A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates-on paper-a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in the creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is formed by accurate historical facts. But its soul lies elsewhere. Since the concern is life, something more is needed: Nothing dry, cold or dead, but a vibrant impression of life that is left in the air after one turns over the last page. But how does a biographer do it? The way a biographer creates a subject is largely dictated by the historical distance between them. There are three types of distance in biographical writing: 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. Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to ""recreate life"" across time and space. She closely examines Samuel Johnson's ""Life of Mr. Richard Savage"", James Boswell's ""Life of Samuel Johnson"", Lytton Strachey's ""Eminent Victorians"", Michael Holroyd's ""Lytton Strachey"", Park Honan's ""Jane Austen"", and Andrew Motion's ""Keats""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rana TekcanPublisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Edition: Revised and Expanded Edition Volume: 15 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 1.000kg ISBN: 9783898219952ISBN 10: 389821995 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 08 December 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsTekcan'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 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 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 Tekcan's initial questionasking what it is that brings life writing to lifeis an interesting one, and her case studies yield some glancing insights, particularly in the discussion of more recent biographies. - Biography 34.4 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 Author InformationRana Tekcan is assistant professor of English at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, Shakespeare, and biography as a genre. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, and Shakespeare, edited Turkish translations of Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar, and translated Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense and Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare into Turkish. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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