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Hardcover The Biographer's Art Book
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ISBN: 0941533522

ISBN13: 9780941533522

The Biographer's Art

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Leon Edel has recently noted that "there exists, I am sorry to say, no criticism of biography worthy of the name. Reviewers and critics have learned how to judge plays, poems, novels--but they reveal their helplessness in the face of a biography." The Biographer's Art, by concentrating on the aesthetics of the genre, responds to the need for serious criticism of life-writing.
This book is both a history of the genre and a substantial analysis...

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Biographies Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Historical History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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