Caitríona Ní Dhúill: Metabiography

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Cover: 9783030346652 | Metabiography | Reflecting on Biography | Caitríona Ní Dhúill | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Caitríona Ní Dhúill is professor in German at University College Cork and the author of Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch (2010). She has worked at the universities of St Andrews, Vienna, and Durham, and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography, Vienna.

Zusammenfassung

- Argues for a new approach to biography: not primarily as a source of knowledge about past lives, but as a resource for thinking through and beyond the very idea of life's narratability

- Covers a variety of texts from the eighteenth century to the present day

- Uncovers the prehistory of the burgeoning field of enquiry now known as metabiography

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: The Language of Biography.- 2: Visual Metaphors in Verbal Lives.- 3: Materiality, Metabiography, and Life's Resistance to Narrative.- 4: A Metabiographical Motif.- 5: Gender Politics of the Biographical Quest.- 6: Biography, Intersubjectivity, and the Not-Self.- 7: Interventions in Metabiography.- Bibliography.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	252
Reihe:	Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Inhalt:	xiv 235 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 235 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030346652
ISBN-10:	303034665X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ní Dhúill, Caitríona
Auflage:	1st ed. 2020
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Maße:	210 x 148 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.03.2021
Gewicht:	0,331 kg

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