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Body Parts

By Hermione Lee

Body Parts Contemporary literature

Body Parts

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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 details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2008-03-06
Publication Date:
2008-03-06
Publisher:
Pimlico
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1844137465
ISBN13:
9781844137466
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
436 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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