Metabiography : Reflecting on Biography Paperback / softback
by Caitriona Ni Dhuill
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series
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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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- Pages:235 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 235 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:10/03/2021
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- ISBN:9783030346652
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:235 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 235 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:10/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030346652
