Life writing
Subtitle: essays on autobiography, biography and literature
By: edited by Richard Bradford.
Contributors: Bradford, Richard, 1957-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780230202528
Subjects: English prose literature -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- History and criticism; Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism; Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism; Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Biography as a literary form
Description: "Including original contributions by, among others, Martin Amis, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and D.J. Taylor, this important collection examines the status and practice of literary biography and autobiographical writing, and reasserts the centrality of the relationship between authors' lives and their works"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction and Acknowledgements; R.BradfordPART 1: LITERARY BIOGRAPHYIn Search of Peter Quennell: Redefining the Self in Kingsley Amis's The Biographer's Moustache; A.JamesPictures and Places: Enclaves of Illusion in the Life Writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff; D.O'ByrneRobert Lowell and 'The Business of Direct Experience'; T.HancockProjections of the Inner 'I': Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the Personal Myth; D.J.TaylorGoldsmith and the Art of Indirect Biography; G.GargettObstacles Confronting the Literary Biographer; D.SalwakHartley Coleridge and the Art of Elf Effacement; A.Keanie'A Horse May Show His Good Intent': Opinionated Protestant Equines from Morocco to Black Beauty; K.De OrnellasLiterary Biography: The Elephant in the Academic Sitting Room; R.BradfordPART 2: VARIOUS SELVES, DIFFERENT DISCOURSES: THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF LIFE WRITINGReflections on the Timing of Juan Goytisolo's Autobiographies; S.BlackWild Realism: The Fresh Air of the Real or the Changing Face of the European Novel; A.GrohmannAutofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism; E.H.JonesSick Diarists and Private Writers of the Seventeenth Century; D.ThorleyTrans-genre Confusion: What Does Autobiography Think It Is?; C.LynchThe 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.KingThe Relics of St. David Wojnarowicz: The Autobiography of a Mythmaker; R.MaguirePART 3: WRITERSAlan SillitoeRuth FainlightAn Interview with Martin AmisIndex.