{"product_id":"too-far-for-comfort-9783838207353","title":"Too Far for Comfort","description":"The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total freedom to the biographer in this creative act. Ideally, a biography's backbone is structured by accurate historical facts. But its spirit lies elsewhere. Rana Tekcan explores how some of the most accomplished biographers manage to recreate \"life\" across time and space. She looks at their illusionary art through the narrative strategies in Samuel Johnson's \u003ci\u003eLife of Savage\u003c\/i\u003e, James Boswell's \u003ci\u003eLife of Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e, Lytton Strachey's \u003ci\u003eEminent Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Holroyd's \u003ci\u003eLytton Strachey\u003c\/i\u003e, Park Honan's\u003ci\u003e Jane Austen\u003c\/i\u003e, and Andrew Motion's \u003ci\u003eKeats\u003c\/i\u003e. She notes three types of distance in biographical narrative: First, where the biographer and the subject personally know one another; second, where the biographer is a near contemporary of the subject; and third, where biographer and subject are distinctly separated, in some cases, by hundreds of years.","brand":"Rana Tekcan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48276683915515,"sku":"9783838207353","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9783838207353_b3e11fba-0379-4efb-a982-d8c8b2b16e0f.jpg?v=1772490571","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/too-far-for-comfort-9783838207353","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}