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v. 1 ISBN 9780404634117
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This volume contains biographers' reflections on their craft and the impact current ideas have had on practice. Its scope ranges from examinations of non-western biography to New York-style "profile" format, while maintaining its main focus on the task of writing biography itself.
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v. 2 ISBN 9780404634124
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This text focuses on biography and source studies. Contributors such as Carole Klein and Edward Butscher discuss writers such as Doris Lessing and Sylvia Plath, and themes covered include psychoanalysis, criticism and art.
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v. 3 ISBN 9780404634131
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This work on the art of biographical writing encompasses source material (authorial persona, enigma); the intersection of biography with other disciplines (history, psychoanalysis, legal aspects); and an ex-biographer's view. A contributor argues that biographers must be critics of the genre.
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v. 4 ISBN 9780404634148
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This work on the art of biographical writing encompasses source studies and biography and other disciplines, including criticism and theory, poetry, popular culture, and living history.
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v. 5 ISBN 9780404634155
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This text brings essays by noted biographers, examining their work and genre. Aileen Ward, at work on a Blake biography, argues that the biographer must be a critic, while Jay Martin, biographer of Henry James and Nathaniel West, gives insights on how biographers discover sources.
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v. 7 ISBN 9780404634179
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A collection of essays on biography-related subjects, such as subject-biographer identification, biography and cultural studies, biography and theatre and biography and memoirs.
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v. 8 ISBN 9780404634186
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In the years since Choice first reviewed Bass, calling it "a provocative collection of essays" and recommending it for "all academic collections," the annual has more than fulfilled its editor's vision. An impressive array of biographers have explained the challenges of their craft while casting much light - sometimes amusing, always colorful and provocative - on their subjects. The roll call includes: Henry Miller (Karl Orend); Anna Freud (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl); Sylvia Plath (Edward Butscher); Doris Lessing (Carole Klein); Gertrude & Leo Srein (Brenda Wineapple); Edward Hopper (Gail Levin); Andre Breton (Mark Polizzotti); Ross Lockridge, Jr. (Larry Lockridge); Ernest Hemingway (Arthur Waldhorn); Susan Sontag (Carl Rollyson & Lisa Paddock); Betty Friedan (Judith Hennessee); James Herrior (Doug Munro); Buster Keaton, Woody Allen (Marion Meade); Dwight Macdonald (Michael Wreszin); Ira Nadel on "Authorized Secrets" and "Theatrical Lives." Bass casts its net beyond the usual glimmering suspects; it trawls the depths of ideological, ethical, legal, feminist, and other cultural channels that affect the course of biography.
Karl, himself a biographer of Kafka, Conrad, Faulkner, and George Eliot, adds significantly to the pursuit and understanding of his craft, while offering omnibus reviews of such undertakings as the Penguin Lives series. The promise continues.
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