
Writing Lives
Principia Biographica
Leon Edel(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 29. July 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-393-30382-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography-an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the novelist. Mr. Edel includes a history of the art of biography since Boswell, criticism of some of the best-known biographers, advice for the biographer on documentation and the use of psychological theory, and a discussion of what Edel calls the supreme problem in biography-transference, the life-writer's emotional involvement with his or her subject.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-30382-7 (9780393303827)
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