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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1501317997
ISBN-13
9781501317996
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219129209
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
488 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Biographical Fiction : a Reader
Publication Year
2016
Subject
General, Semiotics & Theory
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
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1.1 in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2016-017632
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" Biographical Fiction catches the study of biofiction on the upswing. This up-to-the-minute volume, the only one of its kind, features major writers and critics and is sure to be a key point of reference for scholars and students of biographical fiction." -- James L. W. West III, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA "Biofiction has come into its own as a major genre. This timely anthology of author notes and interviews, lectures and essays, covers nearly a century of writing on an increasingly popular genre, tracing its emergence as a distinct form for understanding history and the people, both famous and forgotten, who made it. Scholars owe Michael Lackey a debt of gratitude for compiling such a rich history of this important genre and showing us, in Lackey's words, 'what this aesthetic form is uniquely capable of doing.'" -- Pamela L. Caughie, Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago, USA "Michael Lackey's magisterial collection introduces general readers, students, and scholars alike to one of the most fascinating and productive fields of 20th and 21st century poetology, theory, and philosophy. Biofictions challenge our understanding of past and present and the way we relate to and account for such issues as history and truth, or personal lives and identity by means of narration. Biofictions are highly intertextual and interauthorial (life-)writings and, therefore, they address perennial questions of originality and authenticity making use of manifold imaginative strategies. Lackey's collection carefully retraces the varied history of biographical fiction from initially rather dismissive reactions from critics to the veritable triumph of the genre after the advent of postmodernism. Lackey has very wisely chosen to present us with a rich choice of texts that spans over almost a century and that includes authors' reflections, lectures, forum contributions, interviews, and a choice of critical essays. This makes for a fascinating, learned, highly informative, multi-perspective, and multi-faceted reading which offers historical overview as well as many starting points for further reading and research--a milestone in biofiction studies." -- Martin Middeke, Professor and Chair of English Literature, University of Augsburg, Germany, and Visiting Professor of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa "[This] collection heralds the birth of biofiction as a genre in its own right, separate from historical fiction or life writing, and seeks to advocate for its recognition as a discrete literary phenomenon with its own aesthetic parameters ... The strength of this anthology lies in its presentation of many different and important perspectives on the genre ... Lackey's choice of contrasting material in this volume allows its readers to weigh up for themselves the status, form and role of the genre, advocating for its importance whilst leaving its definitive boundaries decisively blurred." -- Forum for Modern Language Reviews, "[This] collection heralds the birth of biofiction as a genre in its own right, separate from historical fiction or life writing, and seeks to advocate for its recognition as a discrete literary phenomenon with its own aesthetic parameters ... The strength of this anthology lies in its presentation of many different and important perspectives on the genre ... Lackey's choice of contrasting material in this volume allows its readers to weigh up for themselves the status, form and role of the genre, advocating for its importance whilst leaving its definitive boundaries decisively blurred." - Forum for Modern Language Reviews, Biographical Fiction catches the study of biofiction on the upswing. This up-to-the-minute volume, the only one of its kind, features major writers and critics and is sure to be a key point of reference for scholars and students of biographical fiction.
Dewey Decimal
809.382
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Authors'' Reflections: 1. Leonard Ehrlich: "Author''s Note" from God''s Angry Man (1932) 2. Wallace Stegner: Forward from Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1950) 3. S. Guy Endore: "A Final Word" from King of Paris (1956) 4. William Styron: "Nat Turner Revisited" from American Heritage (1992) 5. Julia Alvarez: "A Postscript" from In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) 6. Barbara Chase-Riboud: "Afterword" from Sally Hemings (1994) 7. Malcolm Bradbury: "Preface" from To the Hermitage (2000) 8. David Ebershoff: "Introduction" to The Danish Girl (2000) 9. Thomas Mallon: "The Historical Novelist''s Burden of Truth" from In Fact (2001) 10. Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris: "What is true about this story" from Girl in a Cage (2002) 11. Colm Tóibín: "Henry James for Venice" from The Henry James Review (2006) 12. M. Allen Cunningham: "Author''s Note" from Lost Son (2007) 13. Susan Sellers: "About Vanessa and Virginia " from the Two Ravens Press UK website (2008) 14. Brian Hall: "Author''s Note" from Fall of Frost (2008) 15. Barbara Mujica: "Going for the Subjective: One Way to Write Biographical Fiction" from a/b:Auto/Biography Studies (2016) 16. Joanna Scott: "On Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Fictional Portraiture" from a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (2016) The Case of Eliza Lynch 17. William E. Barrett: "Foreword" from Woman on Horseback: The Biography of Francisco Lopez and Eliza Lynch (1938) 18. Anne Enright: "Acknowledgments" from The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) 19. Lily Tuck: "Author''s Note" from The News from Paraguay (2004) Lectures and Forums: 20. Irving Stone: "The Biographical Novel" from Three Views of the Novel (1957) 21. C. Vann Woodward, Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren and William Styron: "The Uses of History in Fiction" from The Southern Literary Journal (1968) 22. Michael Lackey, Jay Parini, Bruce Duffy and Lance Olsen: "The Uses of History in the Biographical Novel" from Conversations with Jay Parini (2014) Interviews: 23. Julia Alvarez: "Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) 24. Russell Banks: "The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) 25. Bruce Duffy: "In the Fog of the Biographical Novel''s History" from Truthful Fictions (2014) 26. Joyce Carol Oates: "Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) Essays: 27. Georg Lukács: "The Biographical Form and Its ''Problematics''" from The Historical Novel (1937) 28. Carl Bode: "The Buxom Biographies" from College English (1955) 29. Paul Murray Kendall: Excerpt from "Contemporary Biography" from The Art of Biography (1965) 30. Ina Schabert: "Fictional Biography, Factual Biography, and their Contamination" from Biography (1982) 31. Alain Buisine: "Biofictions" from Revue des Sciences Humaines (1991) 32. Jay Parini: "Fact or Fiction: Writing Biographies Versus Writing Novels" from Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics (1997) 33. Martin Middeke: "Introduction" from Biofictions : The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (1999) 34. John Keener: Chapters four and five from Biography and the Postmodern Historical Novel (2001) 35. Ansgar Nünning: "Fictional Metabiographies and Metaautobiographies: Towards a Definition, Typology and Analysis of Self-Reflexive Hybrid Metegenres" from Self-Reflexivity in Literature (2005) 36. Valentina Vannucci: "The Canon and Biofiction: The Subjects of History and New Literary Worlds" from Altri Canoni / Canoni Altri: Pluralismo e Studi Letterari (2011) 37. Monica Latham: "''Serv[ing] under two masters'': Virginia Woolf''s Afterlives in Contemporary Biofictions" from a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (2012) Bibliography
Synopsis
In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Carey, Russell Banks, and Julia Alvarez are just a few luminaries who have published stellar biographical novels. But why did this genre come into being mainly in the 20th century? Is it ethical to invent stories about an actual historical figure? What is biofiction uniquely capable of signifying? Why are so many prominent writers now authoring such works? And why are they winning such major awards? In Biographical Fiction: A Reader , some of the finest scholars and writers of biofiction clarify what led to the rise of this genre, reflect on its nature and form, and specify what it is uniquely capable of doing. Combining primary and critical material, this accessible reader will be invaluable to students, teachers, and scholars of biofiction.
LC Classification Number
PN56.B55B55 2016
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