Metabiography : reflecting on biography / Catríona Ní Dhúill.
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 politicall...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2020.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in life writing.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 152 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030346625 9783030346621 3030346633 9783030346638 |