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BODY PARTS
ESSAYS ON LIFE-WRITING |
| By: |
Hermione Lee |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844137465 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844137466 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2008 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Compares the relation of biography to fiction and history and explores several writers' lives in connection with their works. This book incorporates different ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and autobiographies can be discussed. |
| Synopsis: |
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and autobiographies can be discussed. As the title suggests, she also unravels the complex links between physical, sensual details and the 'body' of a work. 'Shelley's Heart and Pepys' Lobsters', for example, deals with myths, contested objects and things that go missing, while 'Jane Austen Faints' takes five varied accounts of the same dramatic moment to ask how biography deals with the private lives of famous women, a theme taken up in 'Virginia Woolf's Nose', on the way that the author's life-stories have been transformed into fiction and film. Rich, diverting and entertaining, these brilliant studies by a leading critic and internationally acclaimed biographer raise profound and intriguing issues about every aspect of writing, and reading, a life. |
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UK |
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Pimlico |
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