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Author
Series
Biblical interpretation volume Volume 173
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume new ser. 130
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
"Joan Didion has always kept notebooks of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays, and copies of articles. "Notes on the South" traces a road trip...
Series
Biography studies volume 1
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume "Different Lives" offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and...