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Works On Paper The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

Holroyd, Michael
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780349113968
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Abacus
Vekt
342 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Holroyd, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw.

Works On Paper The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

Holroyd, Michael
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
Holroyd, Michael
Heftet / 2003 / Engelsk
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His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind.

INDEPENDENT

Holroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography.

OBSERVER

If anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book.

NEW STATESMAN

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He remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten.

SUNDAY TIMES

Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece THE MAKING OF GBS, a riveting story of deadly literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.
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* A brilliant selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our pre-eminent biographer.
His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind.
His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind. - INDEPENDENTHolroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography. - OBSERVERIf anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book. - NEW STATESMANHe remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten. - SUNDAY TIMES
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His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind.

INDEPENDENT

Holroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography.

OBSERVER

If anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book.

NEW STATESMAN

Se alle

He remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten.

SUNDAY TIMES

Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of fiction in biography, and the revelations of some extravagant autobiographers, from Osbert Sitwell to Quentin Crisp - to which he adds some adventures of his own, in particular an important and unpublished piece THE MAKING OF GBS, a riveting story of deadly literary warfare. The book ends with a series of satires, celebrations, apologias and polemics which throw light not only on Michael Holroyd's progress as a biographer, but also his record as an embattled campaigner in the field of present-day literary politics.
Les mer
* A brilliant selection of letters, essays and reviews written over the last quarter of a century by our pre-eminent biographer.
His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind.
His views expressed with humour and elan on figures ranging from Sitwell to Quentin Crisp are a feast for the mind. - INDEPENDENTHolroyd is an engaging, stimulating commentator who never reduces his academic work to accessible fatuity. He is gently but firmly persuasive of the value of biography. - OBSERVERIf anyone still doubts that biographers are "proper" writers, rather than mere transcribers of life's rich record, then they should read this book. - NEW STATESMANHe remains an eloquent advertisement for the power of biography to animate what would otherwise be forgotten. - SUNDAY TIMES
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349113968
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Abacus
Vekt
342 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Forfatter
Holroyd, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Holroyd is the author of numerous biographies including Lytton Strachey, Augustus John, George Bernard Shaw.

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