{"product_id":"9783030346652","title":"Palgrave Studies in Life Writing: Reflecting on Biography","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Life Writing: Reflecting on Biography\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eNí Dhúill, Caitríona\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eMetabiography \u003c\/i\u003esuggests new possibilities for reading, writing and thinking about this enduringly popular genre. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-03-10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030346652\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-34663-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 235\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521177632908,"sku":"9783030346652","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030346652.jpg?v=1776009452","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030346652","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}