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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- OUTSIDER BIOGRAPHY: DEFINITIONS AND CORPUS
- PARTIAL BIOGRAPHIES BY SAMUEL JOHNSON AND RICHARD HOLMES
- DE SADE ACCORDING TO SAINTE-BEUVE, APOLLINAIRE, LELY AND LEVER
- BARTHES’ AND PAUVERT’S QUESTIONING OF DE SADE BIOGRAPHY
- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: ANDREW MOTION’S THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT 1794-1847
- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: PETER CAREY’S NED KELLY 1855-1880
- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S BILLY THE KID 1859-1881
- ‘FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES’ OF RIMBAUD, FOLLOWED BY SCEPTICISM AND ANTI-BIOGRAPHY
- ARTHUR RIMBAUD: STEINMETZ’S BIOGRAPHY AND MICHON’S BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION
- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AND SAINT GENET
- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AFTER SAINT GENET
- THE OUTSIDER’S SOLITUDE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.