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Literary Biography : An Introduction
Summary: Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors. Provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of issues...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Literary Biography : An Introduction / Michael Benton |
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Chicester :
Wiley-Blackwell
, 2009 |
| Description matérielle : | 280 pp. |
| Contenu : | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Literary Biography No and Then The Cinderella of Literary Studies The Rise and Rise of Literary Biography Dr Johnson:Time, Memory and Identity 2. Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales Aspects of Narrative (i) Beginnings: Charlotte Bronte (ii) Middles: Thomas Hardy (iii) Endings: Jane Austen The Naked Biographer Inventing the Truth 3. Reading Biography Biographer, Biography and the Reader Imagining Blake Problems of a Hybrid Form Reading Lessons 4. Literary Biomythography Biomythography Myth-Making: The Bronte Paradigm (i) Facts: Selection and 'Spin' (ii) Fact into Fiction (iii) Fiction into Myth (iv) Myth into 'Faction' (v) Demythologising the Brontes Variations on the Theme (i) Byron (ii) Dickens (iii) Sylvia Plath Conclusions 5. Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man Virtual Shakespeares (i) The Facts (ii) The Theatrical Context (iii) The Social Context (iv) The / Biographer, Theorist and Subject Virginia Woolf |
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BU Lettres
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| Document à demander aux points d'accueil | XA 597277 | Empruntable | Disponible |