In Collaboration With British Literary Biography

Author : Jane McVeigh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319583839

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In Collaboration with British Literary Biography by Jane McVeigh Pdf

This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118896297

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A Companion to Literary Biography by Richard Bradford Pdf

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 : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner,Edward Cornelius Towne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : UOM:39076000761143

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Library of the World's Best Literature: Biographical dictionary by Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner,Edward Cornelius Towne Pdf

Author : Heinz-D. Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110972139

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Biography / Autobiography Awards 1917-1992 by Heinz-D. Fischer Pdf

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presents the history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A to E the awarding of the prize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to the decisions.

Author : Peter Hainsworth,Martin L. McLaughlin
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781905981076

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Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy by Peter Hainsworth,Martin L. McLaughlin Pdf

Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical and autobiographical writing in Italy from the later nineteenth century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. The majority of essays focus on well-known writers (D'Annunzio, Svevo, Bontempelli, Montale, Levi, Calvino, Eco and Fallaci), and their varying anxieties about autobiographical writing in their work. This picture is rounded out by a series of studies of similar themes in lesser known figures: the critic Enrico Nencioni, the Welsh-Italian painter Llewellyn Lloyd and Italian writers and journalists covering the Spanish Civil War. The contributors, all specialists in their fields, are Antonella Braida, Charles Burdett, Jane Everson, John Gatt Rutter, Robert Gordon, Gwyn Griffith, Peter Hainsworth, Martin McLaughlin, Gianni Oliva, Giuliana Pieri, and Jon Usher. The volume is dedicated to John Woodhouse, on his seventieth birthday, and concludes with a bibliography of his writings.

Author : Heinz-D. Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110955743

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Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917 - 2000 by Heinz-D. Fischer Pdf

The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presents the history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A to E the awarding of the prize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to the decisions.

Author : Dorina-Daniela Vasiloiu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3868218319

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Collaborative Storytelling and Joint Biographies in the Contemporary British Novel by Dorina-Daniela Vasiloiu Pdf

Author : Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442254176

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Literary Research and British Postmodernism by Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy Pdf

Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for scholars that aims to connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological advancements, and the influence of critical theory that converge in postwar British literature. This era is unique in that strict boundaries between fiction, nonfiction, multimedia and print are not useful. Postmodern literature is defined by the breaking down of boundaries as a reaction to modernism and requires an innovative, multifaceted approach to research. In this guide the authors explore these complex relationships and offer strategies for researching this new period of literature. This book takes a holistic approach to postmodern literature that recognizes the way in which digital media, film, critical theory, popular music and more traditional print sources are inextricably linked. Through this approach, the authors present a broad view of “postmodernism” that includes a wide variety of British authors writing in the last half of the twentieth century. The book’s definition of “postmodern” includes any British literature following World War II that engages issues central to postmodern theory, including the social construction of gender, sexuality, and power; the subjectivity of truth; technology as a social force; intertextuality; metafiction; post-colonial narrative; and fantasy. This guide aims to aid researchers of postwar British literature by defining best practices for scholars conducting research in a period so broadly varied in the way it defines literature.

Author : Jennifer Bowers,Peggy Keeran
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810874282

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Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period by Jennifer Bowers,Peggy Keeran Pdf

This guide provides the best practices and reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting research on literature of the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period. This volume seeks to address specific research characteristics integral to studying the period, including a more inclusive canon and the predominance of Shakespeare.

Author : Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Libraries
ISBN : NYPL:33433057516993

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Catalogue of the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association, of Cincinnati by Young Men's Mercantile Library Association (Cincinnati, Ohio) Pdf

Author : Michael Benton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137549587

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Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography by Michael Benton Pdf

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.

Author : Daniel Allington,David A. Brewer,Stephen Colclough,Sian Echard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119565420

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The Book in Britain by Daniel Allington,David A. Brewer,Stephen Colclough,Sian Echard Pdf

Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing and publishing and discusses the formal elements of books and manuscripts, which are necessary to facilitate an understanding of that impact. This collaboratively authored narrative history combines the knowledge and expertise of five scholars who seek to answer questions such as: How does the material form of a text affect its meaning? How do books shape political and religious movements? How have the economics of the book trade and copyright shaped the literary canon? Who has been included in and excluded from the world of books, and why? The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction will appeal to all scholars, students, and historians interested in the written word and its continued production and presentation.

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350419162

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Room by Emma Donoghue Pdf

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

Author : A. Culley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137274229

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British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 by A. Culley Pdf

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.

Author : Heather Bozant Witcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316513491

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Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Heather Bozant Witcher Pdf

Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.