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Literary lives : biography and the search for understanding

Title
Literary lives : biography and the search for understanding / David Ellis.
Author
Ellis, David, 1939-
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000.

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Description
ix, 195 pages; 24 cm
Summary
David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually describe their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness.
Subject
  • Biography as a literary form
  • biographies (literary works)
  • Biografie
  • Literatur
  • Literaire biografie
  • Englisch
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Lives without Theory -- Ch. 2. Biography and Explanation -- Ch. 3. Ancestors -- Ch. 4. Primal Scenes -- Ch. 5. Body Matters -- Ch. 6. The Sociological Imagination -- Ch. 7. History, Chance and Self-determination -- Ch. 8. Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies -- Ch. 9. 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'
ISBN
  • 0748613722
  • 9780748613724
OCLC
  • ocm42835381
  • 42835381
  • SCSB-9671216
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library