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Telling Lives, the Biographer's Art

Author : Leon Edel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Telling Lives, the Biographer's Art written by Leon Edel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven of the most honored biographers of our time--Pulizer Prize winners Justin Kaplan and Barbara Tuchman, National Book Award recipient Theodore Rosengarten, and esteemed literary critics Leon Edel, Dorris Kearns, Geoffrey Wolff, and Alfred Kazin--examine the joys, limitations, and challenges of defining a life. For the very first time, biographers interpret the art of biography.

Telling Lives, the Biographer's Art

Author : Leon Edel
Publisher : Washington : New Republic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Telling Lives, the Biographer's Art written by Leon Edel and published by Washington : New Republic Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telling Lives

Author : Nazaret Cherkezian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Telling Lives written by Nazaret Cherkezian and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telling Political Lives

Author : Brenda DeVore Marshall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461634253
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Telling Political Lives written by Brenda DeVore Marshall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds, life adventures, and ideologies women bring to the political table. From differences in race, class, and geographic location, to variations in personal and family experiences, religious beliefs, and political ideology, these women illustrate many of the divergent standpoints from which women craft their lives in the United States. Each essay focuses on the autobiographical text as political discourse and therefore, as an appropriate site for the rhetorical construction of a personal and civic self situated within local and national political communities. The collection examines issues such as the intersection between the "politicization of the private and the personalization of the public" evident in the women's narratives; the description of U.S. politics the women provide in their writings; the ways in which the women's personal stories craft arguments about their political ideologies; the strategies these women leaders employ in navigating the gendered double-binds of politics; and, the manner in which the women's discourse serves to encourage, instruct, and empower future women leaders. The analyses embody and explicate the political and rhetorical strategies these leaders employ in their efforts to act on their convictions, highlight the need for and reality of women's involvement in all levels of politics, and serve as an impetus and inspiration for scholars and activists alike.

Books of the Times

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Books of the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand

Author : Charles Marsh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666730890
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand written by Charles Marsh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-16 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Marsh responds to criticisms of his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by exploring the largely unexamined relationship between theology and biography. In Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand, he argues that Bonhoeffer scholarship desperately needs the revitalizing energies of the theologian’s life story revisited and uncensored by the guild.

Show and Tell

Author : Dilys Evans
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811849715
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Show and Tell written by Dilys Evans and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-03-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work fo twelve contemporary illustators of children's books and discusses the techniques and features of effective illustration across a variety of styles and media.

A Companion to Literary Biography

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118896297
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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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.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787437
Total Pages : 3905 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

This Woman in Particular

Author : Stephanie Kirkwood Walker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920263X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book This Woman in Particular written by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker (religion and culture, Wilfrid Laurier U.) contends with the "image" of Emily Carr, Canadian artist and writer, while at the same time paralleling how the work of Canadian biographers reflects shifting attitudes toward women, religion, and spirituality. Carr, like Georgia O'Keefe and Frieda Kahlo, is an elusive figure whose artistic quest by its innovative and individual nature set her apart from her time. Walker introduces the key elements responsible for the resurgence of interest in Carr during the last 20 years, opening questions on the very nature of feminist creation and its perception by society. Canadian card order number C95-932582-4. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319567500
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers written by Brenda Ayres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

The Biographer's Art

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Biographer's Art written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Margaret Mahler

Author : Alma Halbert Bond
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786482559
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mahler written by Alma Halbert Bond and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mahler was from a young age intrigued by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Hungarian psychoanalysts such as Sandor Ferenzci, with whom she became acquainted while a student in Budapest. Forced to flee Europe and rising anti-Semitism, Margaret and her husband, Paul, came to the United States in 1938. It was after this move that Mahler performed her most significant research and developed concepts such as the ground-breaking theory of separation-individuation, an idea which was given credence by Mahler's own relationship with her father. This volume details the life and work of Margaret Mahler focusing on her life's ambition--her psychoanalytical work. Her experiences with the Philadelphia Institute and her definitive research through the Masters Children's Clinic are also discussed.

Tropic of Violence

Author : Nathacha Appanah
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451220
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Tropic of Violence written by Nathacha Appanah and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Lives in Sport

Author : John Bale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Writing Lives in Sport written by John Bale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bale (sports studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark) presents essays by Scandinavian academics discussing problems of writing about sports- people's lives. The essays fall along a spectrum, from those dealing with individuals who are anonymous due to confidentiality requirements of a social scientific research methodology, to those leaning more towards the literary-historical traditions of conventional biographical writing. The book is distributed by the David Brown Book Company. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Prophetic Persona

Author : Timothy Polk
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 090577471X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Prophetic Persona written by Timothy Polk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this work is not the historical Jeremiah, but the 'persona' of the prophet presented by the book. A sensitive and illuminating treatment of metaphor, the nature of biography, and the function of the imagination combines with a close reading of several passages (Jer. 4; 8-10; 14.1-15.4; 17; 20) to illuminate the theological quality of the depiction of Jeremiah.

Extraordinary Lives

Author : New Word City Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640192874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Lives written by New Word City Editors and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, six eminent biographers explain the pleasures and problems of their craft of reconstructing other people's lives. The result is a book rich in anecdote and in surprising new information about a variety of famous Americans.David McCullough takes us along on the exhilarating journey to Missouri to find "The Unexpected Harry Truman."Richard B. Sewall describes his twenty-year search for the elusive poet, Emily Dickinson.Paul C. Nagel tells us about "The Adams Women" - four generations of women he came to admire while writing his earlier biography of the Adams family.Ronald Steel, author of a much-honored biography of the nation's greatest journalist, recalls in "Living with Walter Lippman," how the life of the biographer can become entwined with that of his subject.Jean Strouse, on the trail of J. P. Morgan, discusses the fact that "there are two reasons why a man does anything, a good reason and a real reason."Robert A. Caro reveals the frustrations of trying to unearth the true facts about Lyndon Johnson, a man who went to great pains to conceal them.Together, these six biographers take us through a gallery of unique American lives - most of them moving, many of them startling, and all of them extraordinary.