Screen LibraryWriters' biographies and family histories in 20th- and 21st-century literature /
New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the ""New Biographers, "" who more than half a century earlier had trusted art and imagination to uncover some truth about a singular existence, some late-twentieth and twent...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the ""New Biographers, "" who more than half a century earlier had trusted art and imagination to uncover some truth about a singular existence, some late-twentieth and twenty-first century novelists, playwrights and essayists staged the lives of writers they loved, wanted to vindicate, or whose influence they needed to acknowledge and ward off. In other cases, they turned to another sort of genealogy and, blurring the lines between biography and autobiography, told the story of their pa |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 182 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781527505346 1527505340 |
| Index Number: | CT25 |
| CLC: |
K815.6 I055 |
| Call Number: | I055/W956 |
| Contents: | Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Writers Biographizing Their Parents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Part II: Staging Another Writer's Life: Biofiction and Biodrama; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III: Biocritical Games and (Post)biographic Displacements; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Contributors and Editors |