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This book is a defense of authorship--authorship whose public works proceed from and incorporate private lives. Examining the question of the presence of authors in their writings, and of certain authors in the writings of others, Miller focuses on the memorial writings of Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) and Primo Levi, and the work of a wide variety of other authors, including Cervantes, Samuel Richardson, V.S. Naipaul, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ackroyd, Milan Kundera, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and James Kelman. Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the London Review of Books, the book also touches on the opinions and idiosyncrasy of authors; imitation, replication, and pastiche; ghosts; Hamlet and its enduring popularity; recent authorial crises and case histories; and literary journalism.
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Karl |l Miller is co-editor of the London Review of Books, and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London; his earlier books include Doubles: Studies in Literary History (OUP, 1985).
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'a thoughtful and complicated portrait of the modern author'
'Miller has a firm contribution to make to the continuing argument.'
New Statesman and Society
'beguiling and astute book ... a sensitive and intelligent view of the relationship between a writer and a text'
Thom Braun, Notes and Queries, Vol. 235, No.4, December 1990
'excellent book'
John Lucas, Loughborough University, YES, 22, 1992
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0198117809
- ISBN 13 9780198117803
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages234
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