Palgrave Studies in Life Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction

Boldrini, Lucia; Novak, Julia

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story.

Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity.

The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-08-23

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319856537

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 298