Outsider Biographies : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000.
Title:
Outsider Biographies : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000.
Author:
Magedera, Ian H.
ISBN:
9789401211437
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Series:
Textxet : Studies in Comparative Literature ; v.Vol. 75
Textxet : Studies in Comparative Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements and Dedication -- Introduction Outsider Biography: Definitions and Corpus -- PART ONE: RICHARD SAVAGE 1698-1743 -- Chapter One Partial Biographies by Samuel Johnson and Richard Holmes -- PART TWO: LEMARQUIS DE SADE 1740-1814 -- Chapter Two De Sade According to Sainte-Beuve, Apollinaire, Lely and Lever -- Chapter Three Barthes' and Pauvert's Questioning of De Sade Biography -- PART THREE: OUTLAWS IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY -- Chapter Four An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: AndrewMotion's Thomas GriffithsWainewright 1794-1847 -- Chapter Five An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: Peter Carey's Ned Kelly 1855-1880 -- Chapter Six An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: Michael Ondaatje's Billy the Kid 1859-1881 -- PART FOUR: ARTHUR RIMBAUD 1854-1891 -- Chapter Seven 'Family Biographies' of Rimbaud, Followed by Scepticismand Anti-biography -- Chapter Eight Arthur Rimbaud: Steinmetz's Biography and Michon's Biographical Fiction -- PART FIVE: JEAN GENET 1910-1986 -- Chapter Nine Jean Genet: Biography and Saint Genet -- Chapter Ten Jean Genet: Biography after Saint Genet -- Conclusions The Outsider's Solitude -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers' struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects' crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assign merit to productive lives well lived. The book's approach illuminates both differences in those traditions from the mid-eighteenth, to the twenty-first century and a convergence between them, evident in the experimental-cum-fictional devices in recent English-language biography. Outsider Biographies advances wide-ranging new interpretations of the biographical writing on each of its seven subjects, but does so in a way that invites the reader picking up the book out of a passion for just one of those subjects, to follow the thread onto another and yet another.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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