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Biography: Writing Lives (Genres in Context) [Paperback]

Catherine N. Parke (Author)

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Publication Date: January 2, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0415938929 | ISBN-13: 978-0415938921 | Edition: 1

Catherine Parke explores biography through detailed examinations of Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein and other masters of the genre.

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Catherine N. Parke teaches English and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of Samuel Johnson and Biographical Thinking and Other People's Lives.

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 2, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415938929
ISBN-13: 978-0415938921
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
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The words biography and biographer in English and their related forms in modern European languages, from the Greek roots bios, life, and graphein, to write, do not appear until the mid-seventeenth century. Read the first page

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minority biography, feminist biography, majority biography, group biography, biographical series, literary lives, literary biography, biographical subject, new biography, collective biographies, modern biography, collective biography, biographical research

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Virginia Woolf (Ensayo-Biografico) (Spanish Edition) by Quentin Bell on 13 pages
Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell on 8 pages
Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson on 5 pages
Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius on 4 pages
Samuel Johnson: A biography by John Wain on 4 pages

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