Literary And Biographical Essays

Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Essays written by Lytton Strachey and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1949 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains thirty-five sketches about Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, Sarah Bernhardt, and a number of delightful eccentrics, including Lady Hester Stanhope."--Back cover

Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604190687
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Biography written by Joseph Epstein and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down. How easy it is today to forget the simple delight of reading for no intended purpose. Each of the 39 pieces in this book is a pure pleasure to read.

Author : R. Bradford
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230202528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Writing written by R. Bradford and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while others examine the autobiographical threads that are detachable in literary writing and a variety of other forms.

Author : Maarten Delbeke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271029013
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bernini's Biographies written by Maarten Delbeke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among early modern artists, the Baroque painter, sculptor, and architect Gianlorenzo Bernini was the subject of two monographic biographies published shortly after his death in 1680: one by the Florentine connoisseur and writer Filippo Baldinucci (1682), and the second by Bernini's son, Domenico (1713). This interdisciplinary collection of essays by historians of art and literature marks the first sustained examination of the two biographies, first and foremost as texts. A substantial introductory essay considers each biography's author, genesis, and foundational role in the study of Bernini. Nine essays combining art-historical research with insights from philology, literary history, and art and literary theory offer major new insights into the multifarious connections between biography, art history, and aesthetics, inviting readers to rethink Bernini's life, art, and milieu. Contributors are Eraldo Bellini, Heiko Damm, John D. Lyons, Sarah McPhee, Tomaso Montanari, Rudolf Preimesberger, Robert Williams, and the editors.Maarten Delbeke is Assistant Professor of architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden. Formerly the Scott Opler Fellow in Architectural History at Worcester College (Oxford), he is the author of several articles and a forthcoming book on Seicento art and theory.Evonne Levy is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. She is also the author of Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (2004).

Author : Marlene Kadar
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802067838
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Life Writing written by Marlene Kadar and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.

Author : Diane P. Freedman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312925
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Critique written by Diane P. Freedman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

Author : Robert N. Hudspeth
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640050
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives Out of Letters written by Robert N. Hudspeth and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, artention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. Dedicated to Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of the Letters of Margaret Fuller and the Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, the eleven essays in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation.

Author : Charles William Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary and Biographical Essays written by Charles William Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Allen
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447061414
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Arabic Literary Biography: 1850-1950 written by Roger Allen and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, which discuss authors in a variety of literary genres and across the spectrum of the region concerned-from Iraq in the East to Tunisia in the West-provide clear evidence of the gradually changing roles of the indigenous and the imported which are an intrinsic feature of the movement known in Arabic as al-bahada (cultural revival) and the way in which Arab litterateurs chose to respond to the inspiration that such changes inevitably engendered. --

Author : Kylie Cardell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000505774
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Life Writing written by Kylie Cardell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. The essay is a uniquely sympathetic mode for such scholarship, responsive to diverse methods, genres, and concepts and enabling a flexible, hybrid critical and creative approach. Many of the essays curated for this volume are by the authors of creative works of life writing who are seeking to reflect critically on disciplinary issues connected to practice, ethics, audience, or genre. Others show academics from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds engaged in creative critical self-reflection, using methods of cultural analysis, ethnography, or embodied scholarship to address foundational and emerging issues and concepts in relation to identity, experience, or subjectivity. Essays in Life Writing positions the essay as a unique nexus of creative and critical practice, available to academics publishing peer-reviewed scholarly work from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, and a form of scholarship that is contributing in exciting and vigorous ways to the development of new knowledge in Life Narrative as a field. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing.