Too Far for Comfort

Too Far for Comfort
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Publisher : Ibidem Press
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 3838207351
ISBN-13 : 9783838207353
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Book Synopsis Too Far for Comfort by : Rana Tekcan

Download or read book Too Far for Comfort written by Rana Tekcan and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is 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. Rana Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate "life" 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. She notes 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.


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