| Description |
xi, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Theory and practice of biography and biographical criticism ; v. 1 |
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Theory and practice of biography and biographical criticism ; v. 1
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| Contents |
(Post)modern lives : abducting the biographical subject / William H. Epstein |
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Introduction : contesting the subject / William H. Epstein -- Biography and intention / Stanley Fish -- Writer as hero : novelistic prefigurations and the emergence of literary biography / Michael McKeon -- Boswell and the insistence of the letter / Gordon Turnbull -- Ecce homo : biographical acknowledgment, the end of the French Revolution, and the romantic reinvention of English verse / Jerome Christensen -- Biographical criticism and the "great" woman of letters : the example of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf / Alison Booth -- Persona criticism and the death of the author / Cheryl Walker -- Feminist theory and literary biography / Sharon O'Brien -- Too close to home : repressing biography, instituting authority / Valerie Ross -- Producing American selves : the form of American biography / Rob Wilson -- Becoming a biographer : Erikson, Luther, and the problem of professional identity / Steven Weiland |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Biography as a literary form.
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English prose literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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| Author |
Epstein, William H.
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| LC no. |
91017637 |
| ISBN |
1557530181 |
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