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- catalog abstract "In Biography: Writing Lives, Catherine N. Parke surveys life writing from classical times to the present, reviewing the history, theory, and practice of this genre worldwide. She focuses her analysis on biography in Western culture, providing detailed readings of work by watershed biographers, including James Boswell, Richard Ellman, and Gertrude Stein, who together represent the variety and range of modern literary biography. Parke devotes individual chapters to Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf, reading these writers' significance to modern biography in terms of their dual roles as innovative practitioners and theorists of biography and as subjects of major scholarly and popular lives. Parke also examines the relationship of history and fiction to the genre of biography and inquires into the political, social, and ideological factors that have - consciously or unconsciously - affected biographical practice.".
- catalog contributor b10071368.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Biography: An overview of the Genre -- Majority biography 1: Samuel Johnson -- Majority biography2: Virginia Woolf -- Minority biography: Alice James and Langston Hughes -- Group and collective biography and biographical series.".
- catalog description "In Biography: Writing Lives, Catherine N. Parke surveys life writing from classical times to the present, reviewing the history, theory, and practice of this genre worldwide. She focuses her analysis on biography in Western culture, providing detailed readings of work by watershed biographers, including James Boswell, Richard Ellman, and Gertrude Stein, who together represent the variety and range of modern literary biography. Parke devotes individual chapters to Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf, reading these writers' significance to modern biography in terms of their dual roles as innovative practitioners and theorists of biography and as subjects of major scholarly and popular lives. Parke also examines the relationship of history and fiction to the genre of biography and inquires into the political, social, and ideological factors that have - consciously or unconsciously - affected biographical practice.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 175 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0805709657".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 11".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne,".
- catalog subject "809/.93592 20".
- catalog subject "Authors Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "CT21 .P35 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "Biography: An overview of the Genre -- Majority biography 1: Samuel Johnson -- Majority biography2: Virginia Woolf -- Minority biography: Alice James and Langston Hughes -- Group and collective biography and biographical series.".
- catalog title "Biography : writing lives / Catherine N. Parke.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".