Writing Lives: Principia Biographica

by Edel, Leon
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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."
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Edel, Leon
  • ISBN: 9780393303827
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.26 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 1987
Language: English

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