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- catalog abstract ""David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. The aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12828193.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""David Ellis meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. The aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.".
- catalog description "Lives without Theory -- Biography and Explanation -- Ancestors -- Primal Scenes --- Body Matters -- The Sociiological Imagination -- History, Chance and Self-determination -- Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies -- 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'.".
- catalog extent "ix, 195 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Literary lives.".
- catalog identifier "0415928478 (hbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0415942942 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Literary lives.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog relation "Literary lives.".
- catalog subject "809/.93592 21".
- catalog subject "Authors Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "CT21 .E414 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Lives without Theory -- Biography and Explanation -- Ancestors -- Primal Scenes --- Body Matters -- The Sociiological Imagination -- History, Chance and Self-determination -- Compatibility, Sartre and Long Biographies -- 'Dignity and Uses of Biography'.".
- catalog title "Literary lives : biography and the search for understanding / David Ellis.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".