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Brilliant, readable, lively essays on the problems of reading and writing biography. As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to 'life-writing'- the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers' lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and autobiographies can be discussed. As the title suggests, she also unravels the complex links between physical, sensual details and the 'body' of a work. 'Shelley's Heart and Pepys' Lobsters', for example, deals with myths, contested objects and things that go missing, while 'Jane Austen Faints' takes five varied accounts of the same dramatic moment to ask how biography deals with the private lives of famous women, a theme taken up in 'Virginia Woolf's Nose', on the way that the author's life-stories have been transformed into fiction and film. Rich, diverting and entertaining, these brilliant studies by a leading critic and internationally acclaimed biographer raise profound and intriguing issues about every aspect of writing, and reading, a life.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139781844137466
eBay Product ID (ePID)92118883
Product Key Features
Book TitleBody Parts: Essays on Life-Writing
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicLiterary Theory
GenreBiographies & True Stories
AuthorHermione Lee
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight316 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorHermione Lee