Titlebook: Biography; Fiction, Fact and Fo Ira Bruce Nadel Book 1984 Ira Bruce Nadel 1984 biography.fiction.literary theory.literature

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Introduction,of my concern over the lack of critical discussion of biography among readers at the same time as the importance and publication of biography has dramatically increased. The need to understand the literary techniques and strategies of biography parallels its emergence today as perhaps the most popul

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Biography as an Institution,f the genre: the proper size and scope of life-writing. In the nineteenth century, this issue was especially acute as the Victorian attraction to history, leading to the inclusive life, opposed the plea for an interpretative life indicated by George Eliot in 1852.. Initially, the analytic life was a

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Writers as Biographers,of others, mostly of other writers, the author’s choice, treatment and analysis of subject tends to follow a pattern of idealization, revision and rejection. The reason is simple. In most cases the writer’s subject is a literary figure who directly or indirectly has had an influence on his work. The

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Biography and Theory: Steps towards a Poetics,variety of styles of biographical expression this seems an impossibility. However, a theory of biography based on language, narration and myth provides a possible model. More specifically, I believe that an analysis of the function of tropes, the forms of narrative, and the nature of myth in biograp

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Experiment in Biography,ence, along with objectivity and detail, would isolate biography from art. Fifty-three years later, however, Leon Edel perceived a new future for biography precisely because of the way it has adapted the new social sciences, especially anthropology and psychology, to writing lives. The result, he st

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Conclusion, object, not from its mere presence. Relations not facts establish significance. Biography also recognizes the importance of this quality as it becomes more aware of the value of narrative design, structure and style, as well as the position of the reader and the subject in the text. Elizabeth Gaske

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