An edition of Life writing
(2010)
Life writing
essays on autobiography, biography and literature
by Bradford, Richard
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"Including original contributions by, among others, Martin Amis, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and D.J. Taylor, this important collection examines the status and practice of literary biography and autobiographical writing, and reasserts the centrality of the relationship between authors' lives and their works"--Provided by publisher.
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Life writing: essays on autobiography, biography and literature
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
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0230202527 9780230202528
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Table of Contents
In search of Peter Quennell : redefining the self in The biographer's moustache / Andrew James
Pictures and places : enclaves of illusion in the life-writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff / Deirdre O'Byrne
Of skunks and doorknobs : Robert Lowell and 'The business of direct experience' : Tim Hancock
Projections of the inner 'I' : Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the personal myth / D.J. Taylor
Goldsmith and the art of indirect autobiography / Graham Gargett
Obstacles confronting the literary biographer / Dale Salwak
Hartley Coleridge and the art of elf-effacement / Andrew Keanie
'A horse my show his good intent' : opinionated Protestant equines from Morocco to Black Beauty / Kevin De Ornellas
Literary biography : the elephant in the academic sitting room / Richard Bradford
Reflections on the timing of Juan Goytisolo's autobiographies / Stanley Black
Wild realism : the fresh air of the real or the changing face of the European novel / Alexis Grohmann
Autofiction : a brief history of a neologism / E.H. Jones
Sick diarists and private writers of the seventeenth century / David Thorley
Trans-genre confusion : what does autobiography think it is? / Claire Lynch
The art of losing : the place of death in writer's memoirs / Timothy C. Baker
'The contrived innocence of the surface' : representing childhood memory in recent British autobiography / Nicola King
The relics of St David Wojnarowicz : the autobiography of a mythmaker / Richard Maguire
Reflections on life and writing / Alan Sillitoe
A writer's work and life / Ruth Fainlight
Richard Bradford interviews Martin Amis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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