Outsider biographies : : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet: base crime and high art in biography and bio-fiction, 1744-2000 / / Ian H. Magedera.
Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understan...
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Superior document: | Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature ; 75 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014. ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Summary: | Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers’ struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects’ crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assign merit to productive lives well lived. The book’s approach illuminates both differences in those traditions from the mid-eighteenth, to the twenty-first century and a convergence between them, evident in the experimental-cum-fictional devices in recent English-language biography. Outsider Biographies advances wide-ranging new interpretations of the biographical writing on each of its seven subjects, but does so in a way that invites the reader picking up the book out of a passion for just one of those subjects, to follow the thread onto another and yet another. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9401211434 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ian H. Magedera. |