Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-137-54957-0
- EAN: 9781137549570
- Produktnummer: 18133311
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 165 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.1 cm 354 g
- Auflage: 2015
- Gewicht: 354
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Michael Benton
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