The study of biography has leaped from surveys of biographical writing and statements of biographical practice to semiotic and post-structuralist discussions of the modality of biography without adequate consideration of what has already been done in the theory of the genre. Professor Novarr has closed that gap with this comprehensive and judicious historical survey and assessment.VIRGINIA WOOLF The relation of biography to fiction had, of course, been precisely Virginia Woolf a#39;s concern in her 1927 review-essay on aquot;The New Biography.aquot; In reading the essay, one senses that it had not been easy for Mrs. Woolf to dealanbsp;...
Title | : | The Lines of Life |
Author | : | David Novarr |
Publisher | : | Purdue University Press - 1986 |
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