Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
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Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2015-09-07
- Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
- Vikt354 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor165
- Upplaga2015
- FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
- ISBN9781137549570