Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations
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From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary biographers comes Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations, a collection of essays that argues biography is not merely the recording of a life, but an act of imaginative reconstruction as daring as fiction itself. Richard Ellmann — the man who gave us definitive lives of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde — presents a series of penetrating studies on how writers' lives interpenetrate their art, examining figures such as Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, and Eliot with the surgical precision and warmth that made his own biographical work legendary. Ellmann illustrates how the biographical impulse in literary criticism illuminates both the artist and the work in ways that purely formalist readings cannot, challenging the fashionable critical orthodoxy that would sever the author from the text. His prose is elegant and assured, carrying decades of scholarly authority without the weight of academic dryness. Golden Codgers is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered what a writer's life truly has to do with their art — and the answer, Ellmann insists, is everything.
Author: Richard Ellmann
Format: Paperback
Published: 1973, Oxford University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary biographers comes Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations, a collection of essays that argues biography is not merely the recording of a life, but an act of imaginative reconstruction as daring as fiction itself. Richard Ellmann — the man who gave us definitive lives of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde — presents a series of penetrating studies on how writers' lives interpenetrate their art, examining figures such as Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, and Eliot with the surgical precision and warmth that made his own biographical work legendary. Ellmann illustrates how the biographical impulse in literary criticism illuminates both the artist and the work in ways that purely formalist readings cannot, challenging the fashionable critical orthodoxy that would sever the author from the text. His prose is elegant and assured, carrying decades of scholarly authority without the weight of academic dryness. Golden Codgers is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered what a writer's life truly has to do with their art — and the answer, Ellmann insists, is everything.