Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Carl Rollyson on Hershel Parker's MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE



http://www.writersandeditors.com/memoir__biography__and_corporate_history_58068.htm

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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative by Hershel Parker, about which Carl Rollyson wrote: "a fascinating study of biography as a genre and why it has incurred so much hostility."  

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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative by Hershel Parker. Carl Rollyson wrote: "a fascinating study of biography as a genre and why it has incurred so much hostility." Paul Maher wrote: "This book stands as a stoic testament to a field of research flamed solely by zeal and Spartan tenacity. Parker's process arrives to the truth of the matter in a field littered with the rambling surmises of New Critics hoping to eradicate authorial insight in favor of critical skewerings. Parker not only stands for the tried and true ways of literary tradition, but also embraces the potential of the Internet and blogging to enable the potential of new information as well as finding new ways to reach an audience that continues to expand generation after generation."

I am eager to find where Rollyson says this. Maher's quotation is from Amazon.com.

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  1. Carl Rollyson posted in Biographers International Organization

    Carl Rollyson

    6:44am Jan 13
    Reading Hershel Parker's Melville Biography. I don't mean his biography of Melville but his book about writing the Melville biography. He is concerned, though, with much more than Melville. He is really writing a fascinating study of biography as a genre and why it has incurred so much hostility. I'm reviewing the book for The New Criterion.

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