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Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
Michael Benton
出版Springer, 2015-09-01
主題Fiction / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetryLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheorySocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN11375495809781137549587
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mxuMCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.