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Author : William Bingley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Biographical Conversations written by William Bingley and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Bingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Biographical Conversations written by William Bingley and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D.M. Thomas
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784238
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Freud written by D.M. Thomas and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and transformed the way we think about ourselves today. Starting with a brilliant foreword from renowned psychologist Edward de Bono, the book is then divided into two parts: a biographical essay that provides a concise overview of Freud's life, achievements, theories and controversies; and a Q&A dialogue based on rigorous research and incorporating Freud's actual spoken or written words whenever possible. D.M. Thomas carefully guides us through Freud's life and theories that would lead to him become the father of psychoanalysis. In frank conversation, full of energy and spiced with cynicism and wit, he'll interpret your wildest fantasies and strangest dreams, and even let you in on a few family secrets.
Author : Rev. William BINGLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Biographical Conversations, on the most eminent and instructive British characters, interspersed with numerous anecdotes illustrative of their lives and actions, etc written by Rev. William BINGLEY and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rev. William BINGLEY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Biographical Conversations on Celebrated Travellers; Comprehending Distinct Narratives of Their Personal Adventures ... Second Edition written by Rev. William BINGLEY and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501341456
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Biographical Novelists written by Michael Lackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people.
Author : Michael White
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 178678422X
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Conversations with Isaac Newton written by Michael White and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculus that would revolutionize mathematics. His theory of matter in motion sparked the Industrial Revolution. But there was far more to Newton even than these great discoveries. Opening with an informative foreword by the bestselling author of The Body Bill Bryson, the book is then divided into two parts: a biographical essay that provides a concise overview of Newton's life, upbringing, education and achievements; and a Q&A dialogue based on rigorous research and incorporating Newton's actual spoken or written words whenever possible. Biographer Michael White brings Newton to life through detailed research and giving Newton a free voice to tell you about his unorthodox upbringing, his eminent political career, his bitter feuds with rivals and his secret explorations of the occult.
Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623566150
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists written by Michael Lackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre.
Author : James Hillman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882143484
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Inter Views written by James Hillman and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary, yet practical accounts of active imagination, writing, daily work, and symptoms in their relation with loving. The only biography of Hillman, the book also radically deconstructs the interview form itself.
Author : Monica Maristain
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219348X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Bolano written by Monica Maristain and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, the author of the international bestsellers The Savage Detectives and 2666 How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to years of tremendous literary productivity in Spain, and to his untimely death and the posthumous and unprecedented stardom that came with the international publication of his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations is assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolaño best: we meet Bolaño's first publisher, who printed 225 copies of his first book of poetry; are introduced to his parents and an array of childhood friends, who watched a precocious young man turn into an obsessive writer who barely left the house; and witness the birth of Bolaño's famed Infrarealist literary movement. The book also sheds new light on aspects of Bolaño's life taht have long been shrouded in mystery: for the first time, we learn the details of his final illness and the drama of his final days. Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years, with the aim of reintroducing the man whose works grabbed readers worldwide. Maristain writes as a journalist and admirer, impressed with the power of Bolaño’s prose and the cool irony with which he faced the literary world.
Author : Ava Gardner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471101169
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Ava Gardner written by Ava Gardner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava Gardner was one of the most glamorous and famous stars in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Her list of films includes The Killers, Showboat and Mogambo, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress, and her co-stars included Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Charlton Heston, and Richard Burton - the A-list of male Hollywood stars. Married three times - to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra - the first two lasted only about a year each whilst her marriage to Sinatra lasted several. She had a long-running affair with Howard Hughes, and a briefer one with George C. Scott, among others. In Ava Gardner, she has much to say about her husbands and lovers, and some of her co-stars,all of whom get Gardner's unflinchingly honest treatment. Ava Gardner is irresistibly candid and surprising. She began the book because, as she told Evans, 'it's either write the book or sell the jewels and I'm kinda fond of the jewels.' At the time of their collaboration Gardner was living in London, where she had lived for decades, smoking and drinking heavily. Having suffered a stroke that damaged the left side of her face and her left arm she had trouble sleeping and was often depressed - the glamorous wardrobes replaced by grey. Her story could itself have been depressing except for her wit and wickedness, which are on full display in this book. This book tells the story of her life as she wanted to tell it. Ava Gardner is the autobiography that Ava Gardner began with writer Peter Evans in 1988. She never finished it and decided against publishing it because of its frankness. She later collaborated on a tamer autobiography, which was published at her death in 1990. After Gardner's death, her estate authorised the book to be published much as she and Evans had originally conceived it.
Author : Michael Lackey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162892635X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The American Biographical Novel written by Michael Lackey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history.
Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118896297
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Literary Biography written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field – has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.
Author : Alison Gibbons
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623815X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Reading the Contemporary Author written by Alison Gibbons and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or trending on social media, authors continue to be an object of critical and readerly interest. Yet theories surrounding authorship have yet to be satisfactorily updated to register the changes wrought on the literary sphere by the advent of the digital age, the recent turn to autofiction, and the current literary climate more generally. In Reading the Contemporary Author the contributors look back on the long history of theorizing the author and offer innovative new approaches for understanding this elusive figure. Mapping the contours of the vast territory that is contemporary authorship, this collection investigates authorship in the context of narrative genres ranging from memoir and autobiographically informed texts to biofiction and novels featuring novelist narrators and characters. Bringing together the perspectives of leading scholars in narratology, cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, comparative literature, and autobiography studies, Reading the Contemporary Author demonstrates that a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints and critical stances are necessary to capture the multifaceted nature of contemporary authorship.
Author : William Bingley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Animal biography, or, Popular zoology written by William Bingley and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rev. William BINGLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Biography of Celebrated Roman Characters: with numerous anecdotes illustrative of their lives and actions, etc written by Rev. William BINGLEY and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richmal Mangnall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical and Miscellaneous Questions ... With a Selection of British and General Biography written by Richmal Mangnall and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
