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This book illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors. It includes issues and controversies in life writing and offers a biog…
Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors. : Provides up-to-date and comprehensive cove…
Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This book examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how t…
From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is…
Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This book examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how t…
From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is…
From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is…
Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This book examines different types of biographies, why certain people and historical events arouse so much interest, and how t…
From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is…
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052--1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and…
