William elms (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 288 pages. 6.51x0.87x9.31 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Traditional biography often maintains a clinical distance between author and subject, leaving readers with a fragmented view of the emotional truths that shape a life. But what happens when the biographer steps into the frame-when the act of writing becomes a mirror for mourning, identity, and transformation In an era where memoir and creative nonfiction blur the boundaries between fact and feeling, the stakes of biography shift. Loss, trauma, and personal history are not just background-they are catalysts. The emotional investment of the biographer can deepen insight, but it also risks distorting the subject. This tension lies at the heart of psychobiography, a genre that demands both rigor and vulnerability.Examining Lives is a rich, interdisciplinary collection of essays from the San Francisco Bay Area Psychobiography Group, spanning over two decades. Contributors-psychologists, historians, literary scholars, and artists-explore the lives of figures like Mark Rothko, Emma Goldman, Glenn Gould, and Alfred Hitchcock, while simultaneously reflecting on their own emotional journeys. Through themes of death, identity, and the porous boundary between self and subject, these essays reveal how biography can become a therapeutic, even transformative act. Whether mourning a loved one, confronting childhood trauma, or wrestling with professional identity, each writer uses psychobiography to illuminate both their subject and themselves.Examining Lives invites readers to see biography not just as a study of others, but as a collaborative, imaginative process that can help us understand our own lives more deeply.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by William R Elms & Diana M Ricks Hart. 2002. 768 pgs. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author and contributors. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. With two supplementary volumes: 'Opposites-React!' in original perfect bound gloss card covers and 'The Man From Somewhere' (2005) in stapled brown card covers. Both are fine copies. All three are housed in the publisher's green cloth slipcase which is structurally sound with a little rubbing at the edges. Issued in a limited edition of just 75 copies, this example is numbered '37' and signed by Frederik Pohl, James Gunn, Alfred D. Stewart, Alan C. Elms, Stewart Haffner and the illustrator of the limitation page Vincent Di Fate. Included in this near 700 page volume are three previously unpublished stories 'The Moon Bird', 'The Forbidden Window' and 'The Golden Glass' in addition to 'The Planets are Calling', a previously unpublished film treatment from 1957. Of the supplementary volumes, 'The Man From Somewhere' is limited to 200 copies of which this is numbered '190' and signed by Jack Williamson in green ink. 'Opposites-React!' is signed by William S. Higgins (who provides the introduction) in black ink on the title page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Signed by Author(s). …