Aspects of BiographyCambridge University Press, 9 oct. 2014 - 200 pages Originally published in 1929, this book contains an analysis of biography writing based on six lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, in May 1928. Maurois does not go into the history of biography writing, but focuses instead on biography as a means of expression and art as well as science. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in biography writing or in non-fiction writing more generally. |
Table des matières
Biography as a work of art | 35 |
Biography considered as a science | 67 |
Biography as a means of expression ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Autobiography | 131 |
Biography and the Novel | 161 |
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action actual admirable aesthetic artist autobiography beauty beginning believe BIOGRAPHY CONSIDERED Boswell Byron Carlyle character childhood complete confession contemplate course David Copperfield diary Dickens Disraeli Doctor Johnson documents E. M. Forster emotions English Biography ethical example fact feelings Forster friends Froude genius give grapher graphy happens Harold Nicolson Herbert Spencer hero historian Homo Biographicus Homo Sapiens human ideas impossible influence instance intellectual interest Lady Lady Caroline Lamb lectures letters literary lives Lytton Strachey man's Marcel Schwob Maurice Baring means of expression memoirs Meredith modern biography moral motif Napoleon narrative nature never novel novelist ourselves passions perhaps period personality picture Plutarch portrait Proust Queen Victoria reader realise recollection record remarkable romantic Shelley sometimes soul Spencer Stendhal story Strachey tell thing Thomas Hardy thought true truth understand Victorian biography whole write written