THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY
This collection contains 15 essays on The Art of Biography by Virginia Woolf. Contents: The New Biography. A Talk about Memoirs. Sir Walter Raleigh. Sterne. Eliza and Sterne. Horace Walpole. A Friend of Johnson. Fanny Burney's Half-Sister. Money and Love. The Dream. The Fleeting Portrait: 1. Waxworks at the Abbey. The Fleeting Portrait: 2. The Royal Academy. Poe's Helen. Visits to Walt Whitman. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January – 28 March ) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (), To the Lighthouse () and Orlando (), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
The Art of Biography ()
Woolf, Virginia. "The Art of Biography ()". Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries, edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, , pp.
Woolf, V. (). The Art of Biography (). In W. Hemecker & E. Saunders (Ed.), Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries (pp. ). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Woolf, V. The Art of Biography (). In: Hemecker, W. and Saunders, E. ed. Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp.
Woolf, Virginia. "The Art of Biography ()" In Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and Edward Saunders, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter,
Woolf V. The Art of Biography (). In: Hemecker W, Saunders E (ed.) Biography in Theory: Key Texts with Commentaries. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; p
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The Art of Biography
In 'The Art of Biography' by Virginia Woolf, the acclaimed author delves into the complexities of the biographical genre, offering a unique perspective on how to capture the essence of a person's life through literature. Woolf's writing style is characterized by lyrical prose and deep introspection, making this book a poignant exploration of the challenges faced by biographers in uncovering the truth about their subjects. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century literary scene, Woolf's insights shed light on the evolving nature of biography as an art form. Drawing on her own experiences as a writer, Woolf provides valuable advice on navigating the fine line between fact and fiction in portraying a life story. Virginia Woolf's extensive knowledge of the human psyche and her expertise as a writer make 'The Art of Biography' a must-read for anyone interested in the craft of biographical writing and the art of storytelling.
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THE art of biography, we say — but at once go on to ask, Is biography an art? The question is foolish perhaps, and ungenerous certainly, considering the keen pleasure that biographers have given us. But the question asks itself so often that there must be something behind it. There it is, whenever a new biography is opened, casting its shadow on the page; and there would seem to be something deadly in that shadow, for after all, of the multitude of lives that are written, how few survive!
But the reason for this high death rate, the biographer might argue, is that biography, compared with the arts of poetry and fiction, is a young art. Interest in our selves and in other people’s selves is a late development of the human mind. Not until the eighteenth century in England did that curiosity express itself in writing the lives of private people. Only in the nineteenth century was biography fully grown and hugely prolific. If it is true that there have been only three great biographers, — Johnson, Boswell, and Lockhart, — the reason, he argues, is that the time was short; and his plea, that the art of biography has had but little time to establish itself and develop itself, is c
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