'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of
writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials
out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings
include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries,
autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters,
writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric
poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms
(including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers
a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing
readers to something of the range of forms the term encompasses,
their changing fortunes and features, the notions of 'life,' 'self'
and 'story' which help to explain these changing fortunes and
features, recent attempts to group forms, the permeability of the
boundaries between forms, the moral problems raised by life-writing
in all forms, but particularly in fictional forms, and the
relations between life-writing and history, life-writing and
psychoanalysis, life-writing and philosophy. The essays mostly
focus on individual instances rather than fields, whether
historical, theoretical or generic. Generalizations are grounded in
particulars. For example, the role of the 'life-changing
encounter,' a frequent trope in literary life-writing, is pondered
by Hermione Lee through an account of a much-storied first meeting
between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna
Akhmatova; James Shapiro examines the history of the 'cradle to
grave' life-narrative, as well as the potential distortions it
breeds, by focusing on Shakespeare biography, in particular
attempts to explain Shakespeare's so-called 'lost years'.
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