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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1998

Pages: 293-301

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503

Full citation:

Ian MacKillop, "Vignettes", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Abstract

"More matter and less art." In this paper I shall make a seemingly contradictory suggestion for the biographer: to use more matter and more art — or rather different art, art different from that to which we are accustomed in late twentieth-century literary biography, a phrase happily avoided in the name of our conference. I want to suggest that there is a rather crude sort of art, the vignette, not so popular with literary biographers, which can vitalise biography. But before turning to art, a word about matter.

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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 1998

Pages: 293-301

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503

Full citation:

Ian MacKillop, "Vignettes", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998