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Metabiography

Reflecting on Biography

Gebonden Engels 2020 9783030346621
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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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ISBN13:9783030346621
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<div>1: The Language of Biography.-&nbsp;2: Visual Metaphors in Verbal Lives.-&nbsp;3: Materiality, Metabiography, and Life’s Resistance to Narrative.-&nbsp;4: A Metabiographical Motif.-&nbsp;5: Gender Politics of the Biographical Quest.-&nbsp;6: Biography, Intersubjectivity, and the Not-Self.-&nbsp;7: Interventions in Metabiography.- Bibliography.</div><div><br></div>

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