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9780870235139

Biography As High Adventure

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870235139

  • ISBN10:

    0870235133

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1986-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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Summary

This volume is concerned exclusively with biography as a narrative art, comprising essays by ten people who have actually practiced the form.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix
Biography as a Work of Art
3(15)
Andre Maurois
The Figure under the Carpet
18(14)
Leon Edel
Walking the Boundaries
32(18)
Paul Murray Kendall
Biography as an Agent of Humanism
50(15)
Frank E. Vandiver
The Biographer's Relationship with His Hero
65(5)
Catherine Drinker Bowen
The ``Real Life''
70(7)
Justin Kaplan
The Burdens of Biography
77(16)
Mark Schorer
Biography as a Prism of History
93(11)
Barbara W. Tuchman
Reassembling the Dust
104(20)
Paul Mariani
Biography as High Adventure
124(15)
Stephen B. Oates
About the Biographers 139(4)
Index 143

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