{"product_id":"2026200011419-secondhand-golden-codgers-biographical-speculations","title":"Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nEllmann 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130852155611,"sku":"2026200011419-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7207b13e-e68d-4357-a1c9-2bd855cb2f4e.png?v=1786591189","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011419-secondhand-golden-codgers-biographical-speculations","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}