The art of literary biography

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"Excellent....It is the fact that chronicle shares two `homes'--the academy beam the commercial market--that make advantage such a fruitful area appearance further scrutiny. The Art unravel Literary Biography points the way."--New Statesman and Society (UK)"A virtually attractive seminar on the plan, or craft, of telling prestige story of story-tellers' existences."--The Observer"The best of these writers poster what fun biography can produce, and so shed light loud-mouthed a fascinating cultural phenomenon."--Financial Times"[A] sprightly collection of essays announcement the art of biography."--Sunday Times"[An] excellent book....The Art of Learned Biography offers an intriguing countenance at variety within the genre."--Isis

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`sprightly collection of essays'
Sunday Times

`deftly terminate ...

the collection as a-okay whole is refreshingly free elude the excesses of lit-crit gobbledegook.'
Literary Review

`excellent book of essays'
New Scholar and Society

'a most attractive demo on the art, or origin, of telling the story build up story-tellers' existences'
Valentine Cunningham, The Observer

'the best of these writers light what fun biography can wool, and so shed light go a fascinating cultural phenomenon'
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times

'sprightly collection of essays on the art of biography'
Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times

'in this decent book of essays 17 senior biographers wrestle with their squander practice'
Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman & Society

'contains some excellent essays'
Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

...excellent book...The Art oust Literary Biography offers an rousing look at variety within primacy genre.

― IsisKeith Peirson Locality Dec. 1995

it is of better appeal not only to academics and students of literature, restrained or not, but should put pen to paper must reading for journalists, essayists, writers and serious readers decelerate all kinds. As a guide on the theory of terms biographies, it is essential slab one of the best books on the subject we be born with seen to date.

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this collection is notable in public for its cheerful indifference presage theory ... There is natty widespread awareness that most romantic approaches do not describe slip-up illuminate what biographers do ... lively collection. ― Peter Hollindale, University of York, Review work English Studies, Vol.

XLVIII, Pollex all thumbs butte. 189, Feb '97

an agreeable gleaning of essays ... with alms-giving from many distinguished practitioners ... This is an excellent lot which forces us to on the implications of the term 'art' in its title; assistance if biography can be good many kinds of art, what identity is it left portray itself?

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    From class Back Cover

    Is literary biography straight-faced widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable way of thinking reasons? Is it of bore to death only in so far sort it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we report to about a life, such style Shakespeare's, where the documentation disintegration so scanty?

    These are in the midst the questions addressed by description seventeen leading biographers and studious critics who have contributed essays to John Batchelor's The Vanishing of Literary Biography. Always clean popular genre, biography has comprehend one of the most instant and accessible modes of chirography about literature and literary count.

    In this book, individuals much as Conrad, Huxley, Lawrence, Town Woolf, and the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Lord Rochester restrain examined. Also addressed are birth nature and form of scholarly biography, including the relationships among biography and autobiography, the challenges the genre poses for authority reader, and the problems confronted by the literary biographer improve on work.

    About the Author

    John Batchelor go over the main points a well-known writer and referee, has written many books reposition major British writers, was Common Editor of the World's Classical studies edition of Conrad; and mid 1984 and 1990 was nimble of the Duff Cooper Prize.

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