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Literary Biography - An Introduction An Introduction

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.08.2015

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John Wiley & Sons Inc

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280

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22,8/15,4/2 cm

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372 g

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1. Auflage

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Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-06011-6

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"Provides tutors and students with a useful means of entry to a complex and rapidly developing area of debate."--(Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool)
 
"I found this book both highly enjoyable and informative. It is simply excellent - very well written, elegant in structure and individual phrasing, a fascinating topic and a provocative introduction to a range of biographies."--(Geoff Fox, Exeter University)
 
"Last year I was sent Michael Benton's Literary Biography: An Introduction prior to publication, and was happy to supply a recommendation for the dust jacket. I described it then as an "elegant. introduction which is likely to appeal to both established scholars and to the growing number of university students who study the subject at all levels." Having read the book again for the purposes of this review, I am happy to stand by my initial response. Indeed, I would add that the book is sufficiently rich and thoughtful to provide an even more enjoyable and informative reading experience the second time around."--(Katherine Hughes, Biography) "Brisk and readable ... lucid and intelligent"--(Claire Harman, Times Literary Supplement)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

03.08.2015

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

280

Maße (L/B/H)

22,8/15,4/2 cm

Gewicht

372 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-06011-6

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  • Produktbild: Literary Biography - An Introduction
  • List of Illustrations xi
     
    Acknowledgements xii
     
    Introduction xiii
     
    1 Literary Biography Now and Then 1
     
    The Cinderella of Literary Studies 1
     
    The Rise and Rise of Literary Biography 4
     
    Dr Johnson: Biographer, Theorist and Subject 7
     
    Virginia Woolf: Time, Memory and Identity 12
     
    2 Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales 18
     
    Aspects of Narrative 18
     
    (i) Beginnings: Charlotte Brontë 19
     
    (ii) Middles: Thomas Hardy 21
     
    (iii) Endings: Jane Austen 25
     
    The Naked Biographer 28
     
    Inventing the Truth 30
     
    3 Reading Biography 35
     
    Biographer, Biography and the Reader 35
     
    Imagining Blake 38
     
    Problems of a Hybrid Form 42
     
    Reading Lessons 45
     
    4 Literary Biomythography 47
     
    Biomythography 47
     
    Myth-Making: The Brontë Paradigm 48
     
    (i) Facts: Selection and 'Spin' 49
     
    (ii) Fact into Fiction 50
     
    (iii) Fiction into Myth 50
     
    (iv) Myth into 'Faction' 51
     
    (v) Demythologising the Brontës 52
     
    Variations on the Theme 53
     
    (i) Byron 54
     
    (ii) Dickens 55
     
    (iii) Sylvia Plath 58
     
    Conclusions 63
     
    5 Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man 67
     
    Virtual Shakespeares 68
     
    (i) The Facts 68
     
    (ii) The Theatrical Context 69
     
    (iii) The Social Context 71
     
    (iv) The Shakespeare Mythos 72
     
    (v) The Shakespeare Canon 73
     
    The Implied Author: Inferential Biography 74
     
    (i) The Art of Love: The Sonnets 75
     
    (ii) Prejudice, Discrimination and the Law: The Merchant of Venice 77
     
    (iii) War and the Politics of Nationhood: Henry V 79
     
    (iv) Language and Thinking: Hamlet 82
     
    (v) Art and Artifice: The Tempest 85
     
    The Limits of Imagination 87
     
    6 Literary Biography and Portraiture 92
     
    Sister Arts 92
     
    (i) Biography and Portraiture: Reynolds's Portrait of Dr Johnson 94
     
    (ii) Reading the Image: Cassandra Austen's Sketch of Jane Austen 96
     
    (iii) Visual Myth-Making: Henry Weekes's Shelley Monument 98
     
    (iv) Celebrity Image: Thomas Phillips's Portrait of Byron in Albanian Dress 100
     
    (v) Visual Memoir: Joseph Severn's Portrait of John Keats 102
     
    (vi) Bardography: The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare 104
     
    (vii) The Inner Life: R. W. Buss's Dickens's Dream 106
     
    (viii) Sisters' Arts: Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Virginia Woolf 108
     
    (ix) 'To prepare a face ...': Patrick Heron's Portrait of T. S. Eliot 110
     
    (x) Branwell's Ghost: Branwell Brontë's Portrait of his Three Sisters 112
     
    Art to Order 114
     
    7 Comparative Biography: Dickens's 'Lives' 117
     
    The Victorian Dickens 118
     
    The Modern Dickens 121
     
    The Post-Modern Dickens 125
     
    Lives and Times 130
     
    8 Literary Auto/Biography 132
     
    Acts of Self-Creation in Wordsworth and Joyce 132
     
    Wordsworth's 'biographic verse' 134
     
    Joyce's 'artist, like the God of creation' 143
     
    Masks and Metaphors 149
     
    9 Biography in Practice 152
     
    An Interview with Dominic Hibberd, author of Wilfred Owen: A New Biography 152
     
    Living with the Subject 153
     
    Imagining Wilfred 157
     
    Matters of Life and Death 166
     
    10 Authorised Lives 171
     
    The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry 172
     
    Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd 176
     
    T. S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd 181
     
    Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor 186
     
    Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion 192
     
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