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Title: |
Too Far for Comfort |
| Sub-title: |
A Study on Biographical Distance. Second, Revised and Expanded Edition |
| Edition: |
2nd, Revised & Expanded Edition |
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| By (author): |
Rana Tekcan Series edited by: Koray Melikoglu |
| ISBN10-13: |
389821995X : 9783898219952 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
194 |
| Weight: |
.282 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - August 2015 |
| List Price: |
22.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Literary theory |
| 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 â lifeâ 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. |
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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
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