Life Writing: Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780230202528 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 317 str.

Richard Bradford

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This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while others examine the autobiographical threads that are detachable in literary writing and a variety of other forms.

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Introduction and Acknowledgements; R.Bradford PART 1: LITERARY BIOGRAPHY In Search of Peter Quennell: Redefining the Self in Kingsley Amis's The Biographer's Moustache ; A.James Pictures and Places: Enclaves of Illusion in the Life Writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff; D.O'Byrne Robert Lowell and 'The Business of Direct Experience'; T.Hancock Projections of the Inner 'I': Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the Personal Myth; D.J.Taylor Goldsmith and the Art of Indirect Biography; G.Gargett Obstacles Confronting the Literary Biographer; D.Salwak Hartley Coleridge and the Art of Elf Effacement; A.Keanie 'A Horse May Show His Good Intent': Opinionated Protestant Equines from Morocco to Black Beauty; K.De Ornellas Literary Biography: The Elephant in the Academic Sitting Room; R.Bradford PART 2: VARIOUS SELVES, DIFFERENT DISCOURSES: THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF LIFE WRITING Reflections on the Timing of Juan Goytisolo's Autobiographies; S.Black Wild Realism: The Fresh Air of the Real or the Changing Face of the European Novel; A.Grohmann Autofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism; E.H.Jones Sick Diarists and Private Writers of the Seventeenth Century; D.Thorley Trans-genre Confusion: What Does Autobiography Think It Is?; C.Lynch The Art of Losing: The Place of Death in Writer's Memoirs; T.C.Barker 'The Contrived Innocence of the Surface': Representing Childhood Memory in Recent British Autobiography; N.King The Relics of St. David Wojnarowicz: The Autobiography of a Mythmaker; R.Maguire PART 3: WRITERS Alan Sillitoe Ruth Fainlight An Interview with Martin Amis Index

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MARTIN AMIS Writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University, UK TIMOTHY C. BAKER Teacher of English and Scottish Literature, University of Edinburgh, UK STANLEY BLACK Senior Lecturer in Spanish, University of Ulster, UK RICHARD BRADFORD Research Professor in English, University of Ulster, UK KEVIN DE ORNELLAS Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UK RUTH FAINLIGHT Writer GRAHAM GARGETT Professor of French Culture and Ideas, University of Ulster, UK ALEXIS GROHMANN Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK TIM HANCOCK Lecturer in English Literature, University of Ulster, UK ANDREW JAMES Lecturer in English, Chikushi Women's University, Dazaifu, Japan E. H. JONES Lecturer in French, University of Leicester, UK ANDREW KEANIE Lecturer in English& History of the Irish Book, University of Ulster, UK NICOLA KING Associate Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West of England, UK CLAIRE LYNCH Completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK RICHARD MAGUIRE PhD student, King's College London, UK DEIDRE O'BYRNE Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UK DALE SALWAK Professor of English, Citrus College, California, USA ALAN SILLITOE Writer D. J. TAYLOR Critic, novelist and biographer DAVID THORLEY Journalist and freelance writer