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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEllis, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aLiterary Lives :
_bBiography and the Search for Understanding /
_cDavid Ellis.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2000
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tChapter 1: Lives without Theory --
_tChapter 2: Biography and Explanation --
_tChapter 3: Ancestors --
_tChapter 4: Primal Scenes --
_tChapter 5: Body Matters --
_tChapter 6: The Sociological Imagination --
_tChapter 7: History, Chance and Self-determination --
_tChapter 8: Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies --
_tChapter 9: 'Dignity and Uses of Biography' --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748613724);Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all biographies offer is an understanding of their subjects and an explanation of their behaviour. In this book David Ellis, author of the acclaimed third volume of the Cambridge biography of D H Lawrence, meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. Packed with examples and written in a lively, engrossing style, the aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent.In exploring the methods of literary biographers and the ways in which they interpret the material they accumulate - from Dr Johnson to Jean-Paul Sartre - David Ellis is able to make challenging and highly valuable comments on biography in general. Although he chiefly draws on recent lives of writers such as Dickens, Henry James, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Graham Greene, George Orwell, W B Yeats and Hemingway, Professor Ellis also considers the biographies of such compelling, non-literary figures as Mozart, Picasso and Cézanne.With their focus on the understanding of other people as the main feature of biography, the informed and often humorous discussions in this book provide the ideal context for appreciating this fascinating literary form."
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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