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Writing Lives: Principia Biographica

Writing Lives: Principia Biographica

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Series: Principia Biographica

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ISBN10: 0393303829
ISBN13: 9780393303827
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 1 1987
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
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.

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