Biographical Images: Effects of Formal Features On the Way We See a Life

Biographical Images: Effects of Formal Features On the Way We See a Life

When biography is examined as a literary genre, then the selection of materials, the structure of the text, and the style of the prose are singularly important components of the image-making process. Using contemporary texts ranging from the documentary through the re-creational to the fictionalized...

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Public records
Writers
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