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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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-54958-7
- EAN: 9781137549587
- Produktnummer: 20268068
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'167 KB
Über den Autor
Michael Benton is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include Teaching Literature 9 - 14 (with Geoff Fox) and several anthologies of poetry, notably Touchstones (with Peter Benton). His most recent books are Studies in the Spectator Role: Literature, Painting & Pedagogy (2000) and Literary Biography: An Introduction (2009).
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