Metabiography : reflecting on biography

• 作者： Dhuill, Caitriona Ni, author.
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• 其他題名：
  • Palgrave studies in life writing.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in life writing
• 主題： Biography as a literary form. , Biography. , Biography--Authorship. , Contemporary Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature. , Nineteenth-Century Literature. , Eighteenth-Century Literature.
• ISBN： 9783030346638 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030346621 (paper)
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 1: The Language of Biography -- 2: Visual Metaphors in Verbal Lives -- 3: Materiality, Metabiography, and Life's Resistance to Narrative -- 4: A Metabiographical Motif -- 5: Gender Politics of the Biographical Quest -- 6: Biography, Intersubjectivity, and the Not-Self -- 7: Interventions in Metabiography -- Bibliography.
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• 摘要註: "Metabiography is an intelligent, carefully argued, and substantial contribution to biographical criticism and theory. The comparative range, the easy yet thorough familiarity with existing scholarship, and the remarkable degree to which Caitriona Ní Dhúill anticipates and answers objections or responses to her argument, combine to produce an exciting, thoughtful, suggestive, and valuable intervention into the production and study of biography. The best book about biography I have read in many years." - Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, Univerity of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, USA This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in politically committed and hybrid forms of life writing. The book shows how biographical texts in fact destabilise the models of historical visibility, cultural prominence and narrative coherence that the genre itself seems to uphold. Addressing the fraught relationships between genre and gender, private and public, image and text, life and narrative that play out in the modern biographical tradition, Metabiography suggests new possibilities for reading, writing and thinking about this enduringly popular genre.
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