Too Far for Comfort – A Study on Biographical Distance

Rana Tekcan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

186 Seiten

2021
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
978-3-8382-0735-3 (ISBN)

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The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is structured by accurate historical facts. But its spirit lies elsewhere. Rana Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate "life" across time and space. She looks at their illusionary art through the narrative strategies in Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, James Boswell's Life of Johnson, Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians, Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey, Park Honan's Jane Austen, and Andrew Motion's Keats. She notes three types of distance in biographical narrative: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases, by hundreds of years.

Rana Tekcan is assistant professor of English at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, and Shakespeare, edited Turkish translations of Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Julius Caesar, and translated Vladimir Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense and Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare into Turkish.

Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Eating and Drinking with the Subject: Johnson's Life of Savage and Boswell's Life of Johnson 2. Judas and the Frog Prince: Strachey's Eminent Victorians and Holroyd's Lytton Strachey 3. Too Far for Comfort: Honan's Jane Austen, Her Life and Motion's Keats Afterword Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in English Literatures
Verlagsort	Stuttgart
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	531 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	3-8382-0735-1 / 3838207351
ISBN-13	978-3-8382-0735-3 / 9783838207353
Zustand	Neuware