Such thorough familiarity with a writer certainly has drawbacks , particularly , Murphy notes , in the opportunities indirectly provided for unfounded speculation and malicious exaggeration . Yet there is apparently no stopping the ...
Reynolds , David S. Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biography ( 1994 ) . New York : Knopf , 1995 . Roper , William . The Life of Sir Thomas More ( written ca. 1570 ) . Two Early Tudor Lives : The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by ...
Biography: Arkansas Edition
... George Abbott. “Clinical Approaches to Biography: The High Price of Mixed Truth.” Sewanee Review 85 (Spring, 1977).
Patrides, Introduction, quoting John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton, 5 January 1615, in Raleigh, The History of the World, p. 11. 7. Sir Thomas Overbury, The Arraignment and Conviction of Sir Walter Rawleigh (1648), p. 34. 8.
Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres.
Explores the origins and development of the biography, closing with contemporary controversies. These centre around struggles to face those who are against biography and to present biography as not just...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
The first extensive historical study of American biography was Edward H. O'Neill's History of American Biography 1800–1935 (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1935; rpt. 1961). O'Neill examines how “the old factual record gave way to the ...
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
... analysis of character anticipates such modern studies as Richard Ellmann's Joyce. In such a fashion, Xenophon, who ... Inspector General of Great Britain (1752) told in letters from a gentleman in town to a friend in the country, and ...
Biography: Margaret Webster
In Biography: Writing Lives, Catherine N. Parke surveys life writing from classical times to the present, reviewing the history, theory, and practice of this genre worldwide. She focuses her analysis...
... Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. Family Stories (London: Vintage Books, 2010), f.p. 1999 and 2004 respectively pp. 255–256. 155. Holroyd, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic, p. 3. 156. Holroyd, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic, p. 33. 157 ...
This book addresses these and other issues such as freedom and destiny, the effects of heredity, illness, and the impact of education, offering answers based on a profound knowledge of the human being.