Lucia Boldrini

Autobiographies of Others (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines "heterobiography"-the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini explores the tension in these texts between historicity and the desire to free the subject from historical necessity. Authors studied include Malouf, Carey, Ondaatje, Adair, Banti, and Montalbán.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136283253
• Artikelnr.: 38443346

Autorenporträt

Lucia Boldrini is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Selected Contents: Introduction: The Portrait of a Voice 1. Heterobiography and The Utopia of Man 2. Heterobiography
Violence
and the Law 3. The Madness of the Documentary and the Aesthetics of the Body 4. The Author? In Theory
Dead: Heterobiography and Responsibility 5. The Polluted Swamp: Heterobiography
Dialogue
and History