The Art of Literary Biography
Is literary biography so widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable intellectual reasons? Is it of interest only in so far as it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we know about a life, such as Shakespeare's, where the documentation is so scanty? These are among the questions addressed by the seventeen leading biographers and literary critics who have contributed essays to John Batchelor's The Art of Literary Biography. Always a popular genre, biography has become one of the most immediate and accessible modes of writing about literature and literary figures. In this book, individuals such as Conrad, Huxley, Lawrence…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-818289-4
- EAN: 9780198182894
- Produktnummer: 22670961
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 544 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 544
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John Batchelor is a well-known writer and reviewer, has written many books on major British writers, was General Editor of the World's Classics edition of Conrad; and between 1984 and 1990 was judge of the Duff Cooper Prize.
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