{"product_id":"too-far-for-comfort-a-study-on-biographical-distance-paperback","title":"Too Far for Comfort: A Study on Biographical Distance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRana Tekcan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dynamic between the biographer and the subject is one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is structured by accurate historical facts. But its spirit lies elsewhere. Rana Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate \"life\" across time and space. She looks at their illusionary art through the narrative strategies in Samuel Johnson's \u003ci\u003eLife of Savage\u003c\/i\u003e, James Boswell's \u003ci\u003eLife of Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e, Lytton Strachey's \u003ci\u003eEminent Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Holroyd's \u003ci\u003eLytton Strachey\u003c\/i\u003e, Park Honan's\u003ci\u003e Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e, and Andrew Motion's \u003ci\u003eKeats\u003c\/i\u003e. She notes three types of distance in biographical narrative: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases, by hundreds of years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRana Tekcan is assistant professor of English at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She has published articles on Boswell, Austen, and Shakespeare, edited Turkish translations of \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnthony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e, and translated Vladimir Nabokov's \u003ci\u003eThe Luzhin Defense\u003c\/i\u003e and Charles and Mary Lamb's \u003ci\u003eTales from Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e into Turkish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48516057432313,"sku":"9783838207353","price":70.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/qeatZPi_iQ9783838207353.webp?v=1781216406","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/too-far-for-comfort-a-study-on-biographical-distance-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}