Writers' biographies and family histories in 20th- and 21st-century literature /

Writers' biographies and family histories in 20th- and 21st-century literature /

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Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 182 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Biography as a literary form. Autobiography. Authors -- 20th century -- Biography. Authors -- 21st century -- Biography. Authors. Autobiography. Biography as a literary form. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541587

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Other authors / contributors:	Haffen, Aude, editor. Guiheneuf, Lucie, editor.
ISBN:	9781527512931 1527512932 1527505340 9781527505346
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the ""New Biographers, "" who more than half a century earlier had trusted art and imagination to uncover some truth about a singular existence, some late-twentieth and twenty-first century novelists, playwrights and essayists staged the lives of writers they loved, wanted to vindicate, or whose influence they needed to acknowledge and ward off. In other cases, they turned to another sort of genealogy and, blurring the lines between biography and autobiography, told the story of their paren.
Other form:	Print version: Writers' biographies and family histories in 20th- and 21st-century literature. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527505340

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 182 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781527512931 1527512932 1527505340 9781527505346