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Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
• Author: Michael Benton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 165
• EAN: 9781137549570
• ISBN: 1137549572
• ID: 09275439
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 354 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 223 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2015

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