| Description |
1 online resource (x, 563 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Modern ironizations of auto/biography and the emergence of autobiografiction : Victorian and fin de siècle precursors. Im/personality : the imaginary portraits of Walter Pater -- Aesthetic auto/biography : Ruskin and Proust -- Pseudonymity, third-personality, and anonymity as disturbances in fin de siècle auto/biography : "Mark Rutherford", George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Others -- Autobiografiction : Stephen Reynolds and A.C. Benson -- Auto/biografication : counterfeit lives : a taxonomy of displacements of fiction towards life-writing -- Literary impressionism and impressionist autobiographies : Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford -- Modernist auto/biografiction. Heteronymity I : imaginary authorship and imaginary autobiography : Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo -- Heteronymity II : taxonomies of fictional creativity : Joyce (continued) and Stein -- Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in verse : Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberly -- Satirical auto/biografiction : Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington -- Woolf, Bloomsbury, the "New biography", and the new auto/biografiction -- After-lives : postmodern experiments in meta-auto/biografiction : Sartre, Nabokov, Lessings, Byatt |
| Summary |
Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing such as biography, autobiography, memoir, diary and journal for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late 19th century and provides a fresh look at turn-of-the-century literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-553) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2019) |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Autobiographical fiction -- History and criticism
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Biography.
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Biographies as Topic
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Autobiographical fiction
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Biography as a literary form
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Literature, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191573743 |
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0191573744 |
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9780191722882 |
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019172288X |
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