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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised, and Updated
- By: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
- Narrated by: Chris Remo
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This first biography of Susan Sontag (1933-2004) is now fully revised and updated, providing an even more intimate portrayal of the influential writer’s life and career. The authors base this revision on Sontag’s newly released private correspondence, including emails, and the letters and memoirs of those who knew her best.
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Great Narration, middling biography
- By Destiny S. on 06-04-19
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised, and Updated
- Narrated by: Chris Remo
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-17-19
- Language: English
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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on the rich literature of historiography (including the writings of R. G. Collingwood and Herbert Butterfield), and on a wide-ranging body of scholarship on the historical novel (including discussions of Scott, Thackeray, and Conrad), Rollyson shrewdly probes Faulkner's dynamic and changing uses of the past. Also taking advantage of his own work as a biographer, Rollyson has updated, revised, and expanded his original book - extending his dialogue with recent Faulkner critics.
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Uses of the Past in the Novels of William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Chiquito Joaquim Crasto
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-19-19
- Language: English
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Amy Lowell Anew
- A Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I.
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Unfortunately tedious
- By Elizabeth Olson on 01-08-19
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Amy Lowell Anew
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-18-15
- Language: English
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- By: Carl E. Rollyson
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The late Michael Foot, once leader of the Labour party, lives on as a major figure in British political history, although he is best remembered as a fiery and eloquent standard-bearer for socialist beliefs and policies.
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A Private Life of Michael Foot
- Narrated by: Bob Sterry
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-05-17
- Language: English
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture. In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films, diaries, and uncollected work published in various periodicals, he now has a lens through which to reevaluate her classic texts.
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Understanding Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Lesley Ann Fogle
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-10-17
- Language: English
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. One can ask for no better guidebook.
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Reading Susan Sontag
- A Critical Introduction to Her Work
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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Female Icons
- Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Diane Lehman
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This volume represents more than 25 years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself.
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Female Icons
- Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Diane Lehman
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-11-15
- Language: English
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American Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Keith Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Too many biographers, he believes, evince no interest in the biographical tradition. Concerned only with possession of their subjects, their proprietorial attitude deforms not only their biographies but also the genre itself. If a biography is reviewed badly (receiving hardly more than a summary of the subject's life with a perfunctory nod to the biographer), it is because the biographical tradition has been disregarded or discounted. This book, in other words, has been created on the behalf of biography, a genre that still awaits a full vindication.
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Will change the way I read a biography
- By Jean on 10-08-15
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American Biography
- Narrated by: Keith Peters
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-28-15
- Language: English
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary 71-year writing career. The general introductory studies of West are outdated and do not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive of unpublished letters and manuscripts. Previous scholarly books have chopped West up into categories and genres instead of following the evolution of her career.
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The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West
- Narrated by: Paul Bloede
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-25-16
- Language: English
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Reading Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Jonathan R. Clauson
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Most book reviewers know very little about the history or the art of biography. Indeed, if there is any art in biography, it is the rare reviewer that acknowledges it or knows how to discuss it. Usually the reviewer regards biography as an occasion to wax eloquent about what he or she thinks of the subject. Little space, if any, is devoted to the biography's structure or style, to the biographer's peculiar problems, or to how the biography relates to others about the same subject.
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Reading Biography
- Narrated by: Jonathan R. Clauson
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-21-15
- Language: English
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Emily Dickinson
- Self-Discipline in the Service of Art
- By: Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 58 mins
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Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own pleasure, and to exercise and increase her creative talents. Very few of her poems were published during her own lifetime, yet we know that she wrote consistently - perhaps every day - over several decades. Poetry was her way of knowing herself and understanding the world.
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Boooooo Where's the scholarship?
- By J. A. on 11-01-15
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Emily Dickinson
- Self-Discipline in the Service of Art
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 03-17-15
- Language: English
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Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave
- The Adventurous Life of America's Most Glamorous and Courageous War Correspondent
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Diedra O'Ree
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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The first biography of Martha Gellhorn, produced during her lifetime. This comprehensive biography provides crucial information about her early life in St. Louis, her travels abroad, her work for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, her meeting and subsequent storied marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and her decision to leave him and resume her career as novelist and war reporter.
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Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave
- The Adventurous Life of America's Most Glamorous and Courageous War Correspondent
- Narrated by: Diedra O'Ree
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-12-21
- Language: English
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Lives of the Novelists
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography, including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances, there seems to be a symbiosis between the biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action.
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Lives of the Novelists
- Narrated by: Thomas D. Hand
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-21-15
- Language: English
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A Higher Form of Cannibalism?
- Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
- By: Carl E. Rollyson
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Since Wilde's condemnation of modern biography, the genre would appear to have accelerated its descent into bad taste. As Carl Rollyson points out, writers as various as Rebecca West, Ted Hughes, and Joyce Carol Oates have deplored biographers' tendency to cut up lives and render the bloody data so as to make their subjects seem unhealthy, unwholesome, and unsound. Janet Malcolm has compared biographers to burglars; modern novels feature the biographer as grave robber and victimizer.
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A Higher Form of Cannibalism?
- Adventures in the Art and Politics of Biography
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-25-15
- Language: English
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British Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Byrwec Ellison
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the 18th century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man but also to reveal his flaws. Boswell reported long stretches of Johnson's conversation, noted his mannerisms, and in general gave an intimate picture such as no biography had ever before dared to attempt.
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British Biography
- Narrated by: Byrwec Ellison
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-13-16
- Language: English
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Essays in Biography
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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An essay in biography, Rollyson argues, is an effort to comprehend a life that is inherently incomplete and subject to revision. Many of the facts about a biographical subject's life that are blandly presented in reference books have been discovered by biographers at great cost to their reputations. With the history of biography as a censored genre in mind, he encourages consumers of biography to be critical of the biographies they come across - no matter whether those biographies are book-length narratives or short encyclopedia entries.
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Essays in Biography
- Narrated by: Russell Stamets
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 10-06-15
- Language: English
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
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Jill Craigie - filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist, and devoted wife to former Labour leader Michael Foot - led an extraordinary life. Strikingly attractive, fiercely independent, and politically radical, Craigie established a reputation as a filmmaker with her 1944 film Out of Chaos, becoming the first female director to gain national attention.
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To Be a Woman
- The Life of Jill Craigie
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-02-15
- Language: English
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