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. INDICE: - Introduction and Acknowledgements; R.Bradford - PART 1: LITERARYBIOGRAPHY - 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 ElfEffacement; 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 onthe 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 MartinAmis - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20252-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 19/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés