Literary Lives : Biography and the Search for Understanding

ISBN-13: 9780748613724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str.

Opis

A meditation on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. The aim of the book is to uncover principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of the lives of others and ensure that their own narratives remain coherent.