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Content: "Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history."--

Content: "The American Biographical Novel examines the rise of this genre of fiction, how it engages and historicizes the political, the unique kind of 'truth' it communicates, and how it contributes to our collective understanding of culture and consciousness"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: The Rise and Legitimization of the American Biographical Novel -- Chapter Two: The Fictional Truth of the Biographical Novel: The Case of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Chapter Three: Surrealism, Historical Representation, and the Biographical Novel -- Chapter Four: Zora Neale Hurston and the Art of Political Critique in the Biblical Biographical Novel -- Chapter Five: Dual Temporal Truths in the Biographical novel -- Chapter Six: The Biographical Novel: A Misappropriated Life or a Truthful Fiction? -- Bibliography -- Index

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Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Biografischer Roman ; 1891-1960 Hurston, Zora Neale ; Biografischer Roman ; Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781501319549

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Author information: Lackey, Michael, 1962-,

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Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Interview

DOI: 10.5040/9781501341496

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Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Biografischer Roman ; 1891-1960 Hurston, Zora Neale ; Biografischer Roman

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages)

ISBN: 9781003159414 , 1003159419 , 9781000399684 , 1000399680 , 9781000399721 , 1000399729

Content: "Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: When did biofiction come into being? What forces gave birth to it? How does it uniquely function and signify? Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? This introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Toibin, thus enabling readers to assess the value and impact of individual works on the culture at large. Spanning nineteenth-century origins to contemporary debates and adaptations, this book not only equips the reader with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biofiction but also provides a valuable guide to the uncanny power of the biographical novel to transform cultural attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs"--

Note: The nineteenth century origins. The art of agential living -- Portraits of whom? -- Literature, cultural critique, and political liberation. Biofiction as social critique -- The Irish, the unslave trade, and the decolonization of the mind -- The 1930s and the first surge in biofiction -- Literary debates. The assault on biofiction -- The William Styron controversy -- Postmodernism's historiographic metafiction or biofiction's "truth" proposals? -- John Edgar Wideman on the ethics of fictionalizing a life in biofiction -- The uncanny power of biofiction. Biofiction as cultural intervention : the case of Sally Hemings -- The 1990s : the decade of biofiction's official legitimization and dominance -- The transformative powers of biofiction for students : a case study of David Ebershoff's The Danish girl.

Additional Edition: Print version: Lackey, Michael. Biofiction New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367747657

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Literary criticism. ; Literary criticism. ; Critiques littéraires.

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Edition: Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

ISBN: 9781501378508

Content: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ireland, the Irish, and Biofiction -- I. Historical Context for the Rise of Biofiction -- 1. Oscar Wilde and the Invention of a Life-Creating Fiction -- 2. George Moore's The Brook Kerith and the Scandal of the Biographical Novel -- II. Irish Figures as Biofictional Symbols -- 3. Roger Casement and the Transnational Origins of "Irishness" -- 4. Traumatized Agency in Eliza Lynch Biographical Novels -- III. Theoretical Reflections about Biofiction -- 5. A Poetics of the Biographical Novel: Agency, History, Fiction -- 6. Why Names Matter: Concluding Reflections about Autonomy and Biofiction -- Appendix: Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa -- Bibliography -- Index.

Content: "Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction. Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and George Moore authored in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the best biographical novels about Wilde (by Peter Ackroyd and Colm Tóibín). He then focuses on contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Graham Shelby, Anne Enright, and Mario Vargas Llosa, who Lackey has interviewed for this work) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of seizing and securing a life-promoting form of agency within a colonial and patriarchal context. In conclusion, Lackey briefly analyzes biographical novels by Peter Carey and Mary Morrissy to illustrate why agency is of central importance for the Irish, and why that focus mandated the rise of the biographical novel, a literary form that mirrors the constructed Irish interior."--

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Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.5040/9781501378508

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)

ISBN: 9789048552900

Series Statement: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World 17

Content: The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or midwives, visual artists or poets and playwrights, stand out for their roles as active practitioners of their own arts and for their accomplishments as creators. Whether they delivered infants or governed as monarchs, or produced embroideries, letters, paintings or poems, their visions, the authors argue, have endured across the centuries. As the title of the volume suggests, the essays gathered here participate in a wider conversation about the relation between biography, historical fiction, and the growing field of biofiction (that is, contemporary fictionalizations of historical figures), and explore the complicated interconnections between celebrating early modern women and perpetuating popular stereotypes about them

Note: Frontmatter , Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World , Table of Contents , List of Figures , Acknowledgments , 1. Introduction: Biography, Biofiction, and Gender in the Modern Age , Section I: Fictionalizing Biography , 2. Sister Teresa: Fictionalizing a Saint , 3. Portrait of an Unknown Woman : Fictional Representations of Levina Teerlinc, Tudor Paintrix , 4. An Interview with Dominic Smith , Author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: Capturing the Seventeenth Century , 5. Lanyer: The Dark Lady and the Shades of Fiction , 6. Archival Bodies, Novel Interpretations , and the Burden of Margaret Cavendish , Section II: Materializing Authorship , 7. Bess of Hardwick: Materializing Autobiography , 8. The Queen as Artist: Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart , 9. "Very Secret Kept": Facts and Re- Creation in Margaret Hannay's Biographies of Mary Sidney and Mary Wroth , 10. Imagining Shakespeare's Sisters : Fictionalizing Mary Sidney Herbert and Mary Sidney Wroth , 11. Anne Boleyn, Musician: A Romance Across Centuries and Media , Section III: Performing Gender , 12. Reclaiming Her Time : Artemisia Gentileschi Speaks to the Twenty-First Century , 13. Beyond the Record: Emilia and Feminist Historical Recovery , 14. Writing, Acting, and the Notion of Truth in Biofiction About Early Modern Women Authors , 15. Jesusa Rodríguez's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : Reflections on an Opaque Body , Section IV: Authoring Identity , 16. From Hollywood Film to Musical Theater : Veronica Franco in American Popular Culture , 17. The Role of Art in Recent Biofiction on Sofonisba Anguissola , 18. "I am Artemisia": Art and Trauma in Joy McCullough's Blood Water Paint , 19. The Lady Arbella Stuart, a "Rare Phoenix" : Her Re-Creation in Biography and Biofiction , 20. The Gossips' Choice : Extending the Possibilities for Biofiction with Creative Uses of Sources , 21. Afterword , Index , In English

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Series Statement: Biofiction studies

Note: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ireland, the Irish, and Biofiction -- Part One Historical Context for the Rise of Biofiction -- 1 Oscar Wilde and the Invention of a Life-Creating Fiction -- 2 George Moore's The Brook Kerith and the Scandal of the Biographical Novel -- Part Two Irish Figures as Biofictional Symbols -- 3 Roger Casement and the Transnational Origins of "Irishness" -- 4 Traumatized Agency in Eliza Lynch Biographical Novels -- Part Three Theoretical Reflections about Biofiction -- 5 A Poetics of the Biographical Novel: Agency, History, Fiction -- 6 Why Names Matter: Concluding Reflections about Autonomy and Biofiction -- Appendix: Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Biografische Literatur ; Biografischer Roman

DOI: 10.5040/9781501378508

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ISBN: 978-1-62356-182-6 , 978-1-6289-2695-8 , 978-1-62356-615-9

Content: "In this new collection of interviews, some of America's most prominent novelists identify the key intellectual developments that led to the rise of the contemporary biographical novel, discuss the kind of historical 'truth' this novel communicates, indicate why this narrative form is superior to the traditional historical novel, and reflect on the ideas and characters central to their individual works. These interviews do more than just define an innovative genre of contemporary fiction. They provide a precise way of understanding the complicated relationship and pregnant tensions between contextualized thinking and historical representation, interdisciplinary studies and 'truth' production, and fictional reality and factual constructions. By focusing on classical and contemporary debates regarding the nature of the historical novel, this volume charts the forces that gave birth to a new incarnation of this genre"..

Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Rise of the American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey -- Interviews: 1. Julia Alvarez: Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel -- 2. Russell Banks: The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel -- 3. Madison Smartt Bell: Big Revolutionary Bangs in the Biographical Novel -- 4. M. Allen Cunningham: Building the Imaginative Record with the Biographical Novel -- 5. Michael Cunningham: The Biographical Novel and the Complexity of Postmodern Interiors -- 6. Anita Diamant: Imagining a Matrilineal History in the Biographical Novel -- 7. Bruce Duffy: In the Fog of the Biographical Novel's History -- 8. Ron Hansen: Sensualizing and Contextualizing Historical 'Truth' in the Biographical Novel -- 9. Sherry Jones: The Art of Claiming Power in the Biographical Novel -- 10. Rebecca Kanner: Feminist Naming in the Biographical Novel -- 11. Kate Moses: Re-Composing a Life in the Biographical Novel -- 12. Joyce Carol Oates: Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel -- 13. Lance Olsen: The Biographical Novel's Practice of Not-Knowing -- 14. Jay Parini: Reflections on Biographical Fiction -- 15. Joanna Scott: The Masking Art of the Biographical Novel -- 16. Edmund White: Gay Interiors and the Biographical Novel -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

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Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Schriftsteller ; Biografischer Roman ; Interview

DOI: 10.5040/9781628926958

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Format: 1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-62674-044-5

Series Statement: Literary Conversations Series

Content: "This book contains the most important interviews with Jay Parini, who is best known for his 1990 The Last Station, a multi-perspective novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. Parini's work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. It is crucial for understanding late-20th and early-21st century literature more generally, as Parini not only engages in a lively conversation with other prominent writers, but also was close friends with so many of these authors. He has openly written poems in conversation with such writers as Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has had an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the years--Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A.N. Wilson, and countless others. His life often seems like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking, trading stories. These interviews will give scholars a more comprehensive understanding of his work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understanding of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, which Parini has played an important role in shaping"--

Note: Includes index. , ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chronology""; ""The Poets-Strangers on the Edge of Town""; ""Tony Cannella / 1977""; ""Jay Parini Interview with Don Swaim""; ""Don Swaim / 1990""; ""Interview with Chris Bohjalian""; ""Chris Bohjalian / 1997""; ""Jay Parini Interview: Robert Frost: A Life""; ""Brian Lamb / 1999""; ""An Interview with Jay Parini""; ""Paul Holler / 2006""; ""Writer's Craft: Floating Ideas with Literary Legend Jay Parini""; ""Mike Ives / 2007""; ""Jay Parini's The Last Station: Tolstoy's Final Year""; ""Ramona Koval / 2007""; ""Jay Parini on Why Poetry Matters"" , ""Mitch Wertlieb / 2008""""The Books That Changed America""; ""Tom Ashbrook / 2008""; ""After Words: Jay Parini, Promised Land""; ""Sam Tanenhaus / 2008""; ""Interview with Jay Parini""; ""Shelagh Shapiro / 2010""; ""Reflections on Biographical Fiction""; ""Michael Lackey / 2012""; ""The Uses of History in the Biographical Novel: A Conversation with Jay Parini, Bruce Duffy, and Lance Olsen""; ""Michael Lackey / 2012""; ""Self-Interview: JP talks to Jay Parini""; ""Jay Parini / 2013""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N"" , ""O""""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" , English

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Format: xv, 466 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-1-5013-1799-6 , 978-1-5013-1800-9

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Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Biografischer Roman ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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