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Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography (Hardcover, 1st ed. 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.
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