Physical Description
191 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Jon Westling, Edith Kurzweil
Writing Orwell's biography / Jeffrey Meyers
The case of the Jewish biography / Michal Govrin
Temporizing / Andre Aciman
The past as fiction / Norman Manea
The personal and the individual / Leonard Michaels
Blues for America / Stanley Crouch
Biographers with blue guitars / Jay Martin
Revising national themes / Conor Cruise O'Brien
The new biographical culture / Geoffrey Hartman
Mothers/daughters / Francine du Plessix Gray
On the smoking ruins of structuralism / Hilary Spurling
My only memoir / Denis Donoghue
Conference comment / Kirsten Olson Lanier
Milosz's ABC's / Czeslaw Milosz
New York Film Festival 2000 / Edith Kurzweil
Dance chronicle / Terry Teachout.
Other Authors/Editors
Westling, Jon.
Notes
Introduction / Jon Westling, Edith Kurzweil -- Writing Orwell's biography / Jeffrey Meyers -- The case of the Jewish biography / Michal Govrin -- Temporizing / Andre Aciman -- The past as fiction / Norman Manea -- The personal and the individual / Leonard Michaels -- Blues for America / Stanley Crouch -- Biographers with blue guitars / Jay Martin -- Revising national themes / Conor Cruise O'Brien -- The new biographical culture / Geoffrey Hartman -- Mothers/daughters / Francine du Plessix Gray -- On the smoking ruins of structuralism / Hilary Spurling -- My only memoir / Denis Donoghue -- Conference comment / Kirsten Olson Lanier -- Milosz's ABC's / Czeslaw Milosz -- New York Film Festival 2000 / Edith Kurzweil -- Dance chronicle / Terry Teachout.
