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A Brief History of Biographies. From Plutarch to Celebs
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A Brief History of Biographies. From Plutarch to Celebs Paperback - 2011

by BROWN, Andrew

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Hesperus Press / Trafalgar Square, Hesperus Press / Trafalgar Square. 2011, 131pp. Paperback. In very good condition. "The works of T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, and more are considered in this exploration of the historical fascination with life-writing Meditating on whether the success of celebrity biographies is a mark of today’s prurient, voyeuristic timesor rather, if the fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the agesthis investigation into the history of life-writing argues that modern biographies are actually an extension of early religious roots. Modern writing inspires by framing life as a struggleagainst drink, drugs, depression, or deprivationthat is eventually won. Yet this trajectory can be found in even the earliest lives of saints and their struggles against the devil. This history considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes towards subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist, and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state." ISBN: 9781843919728
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  • Title A Brief History of Biographies. From Plutarch to Celebs
  • Author BROWN, Andrew
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 131
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hesperus Press / Trafalgar Square, Hesperus Press / Trafalgar Square
  • Date 2011-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 64521
  • ISBN 9781843919728 / 1843919729
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 in (19.30 x 12.45 x 1.02 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 800

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About the author

Andrew Brown is the author of "Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert "and "Brief Lives: Stendhal "and the translator of" For a Night of Love," "Gargantua," and "Theseus."

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