Carl Rollyson

Biographic Data

ID1323688
NAMECarl Rollyson
GIVEN NAMESCarl
FAMILY NAMERollyson
SIGNATUREROLLYSON C
AFFILIATIONSLehman College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Becoming My Own Authority

    Open AccessCarl RollysonARTICLEJournal of American Studies2023

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  • The Life of William Faulkner

    Carl RollysonBOOKLife of William Faulkner2020

  • The Shadow in the Garden

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2019

    Reviewed by: The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale by James Atlas Carl Rollyson (bio) The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale James Atlas Pantheon, 2017, 400 pp. ISBN 978-1101871690, $28.95 hardcover. James Atlas, biographer of Delmore Schwartz and Saul Bellow, takes his title from Saul Bellow's description of the biographer. Or so Atlas thought until he discovered in his journal exactly what Bellow said—that the biographer was "the…

  • Biography and the Subject

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2017

    Biography and the SubjectThe Year in the US Carl Rollyson (bio) Modern biography begins with James Boswell, who took up Samuel Johnson's challenge to render a life in "minute details" (5). Boswell boasted that after reading his life of Johnson you will know Johnson better than any human being who has ever lived. Making good on that boast meant befriending the biographical subject, tagging along with Johnson on his many outings and at home among h…

  • American Biography

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2016

  • Theoretical Discussions of Biography

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2013Cited by: 1

    Reviewed by: Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing ed. by Hans Renders, Binne de Haan Carl Rollyson (bio) Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, eds. Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing.With a Foreword by Nigel Hamilton. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2013. 456pp. ISBN 978-0773440920, $159.00. This is an unusually comprehensive study of biograp…

  • Biography Theory and Method

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2002

    In the Life of Savage , Samuel Johnson exemplifies his enlightenment biographical method, which stresses the biographer's effort to overcome the differences between himself and his subject. Contrary to romantic doctrine, Johnson's theory values the biographer's empathy for, rather than identification with, the biographee

  • Samuel Johnson

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography2001Cited by: 1

    In The Rambler, No. 60, Saturday, October 13, 1750, Samuel Johnson published a description of biography that has never been surpassed. He wrote about biography with a generosity and firmness that I have found lacking in other accounts of the genre. Biographers and their critics have treated the subject with defensiveness and hostility. Since Johnson, writing about biography has been an exercise in apologetics and in skepticism. As a practicing bi…

  • God Bless Kitty Kelley, Or, Biography High and Low

    Carl RollysonARTICLEBiography1997

    At the Biography Seminar on the New York University Campus, biographers debate the claim that there is little difference between the high and low of biography, between Richard Ellmann and Kitty Kelley. But there is much to be said for Kelley and a school of biography that is as reckless and dynamic as our greatest novelists

  • The Lives of Norman Mailer

    John D Kalb, Carl RollysonARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

  • More Than A Popcorn Venus

    Open AccessCarl Rollyson, Carl E RollysonARTICLEJournal of American Culture1987

  • Counterpull

    Carl Rollyson, Carl E RollysonARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly1986

    Research Article| July 01 1986 “Counterpull”: Estelle and William Faulkner Carl E. Rollyson, Jr. Carl E. Rollyson, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1986) 85 (3): 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-85-3-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Carl E. Rollyson; “Counterpull”: Estelle and William Faulkner. South Atlantic Quart…

  • Marilyn

    Carl Rollyson, Carl E RollysonARTICLEBiography1978

    Norman Mailer's biography of Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn , has a two-fold purpose: to faithfully measure and evaluate the obstacles that bar the biographer's way to a full understanding of his subject's life and to tentatively suggest a biographical method which will aim at recreating the whole person while at the same time conceding that the search for wholeness is elusive and problematical