Too Far for Comfort: A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition - Couverture souple

Tekcan, Rana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 389821995X ISBN 13 : 9783898219952

Editeur : ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, 2015

Synopsis

The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is, perhaps, 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.
The way a biographer captures the spirit of a subject is intriguingly shaped by the historical distance between the two. We find 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.
In this revised and expanded edition, 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rana 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 389821995X
• ISBN 13: 9783898219952
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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