Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780415507370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 242 str.

Lucia Boldrini

Opis

In this volume, Boldrini examines 'heterobiography' - the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships that define the subject.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: Introduction: The Portrait of a Voice  1. Heterobiography and The Utopia of Man  2. Heterobiography, Violence, and the Law  3. The Madness of the Documentary and the Aesthetics of the Body  4. The Author? In Theory, Dead: Heterobiography and Responsibility  5. The Polluted Swamp: Heterobiography, Dialogue, and History

O autorze

Lucia Boldrini is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.