03895nam 2200601 450 991081023320332120230803200039.094-012-1143-410.1163/9789401211437(CKB)2670000000578292(EBL)1762110(SSID)ssj0001435328(PQKBManifestationID)12012521(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001435328(PQKBWorkID)11428617(PQKB)10037573(MiAaPQ)EBC1762110(OCoLC)890589944(OCoLC)886744234(OCoLC)890437898(nllekb)BRILL9789401211437(Au-PeEL)EBL1762110(CaPaEBR)ebr10992228(CaONFJC)MIL665226(OCoLC)897069736(EXLCZ)99267000000057829220141219h20142014 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtccrOutsider 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 /Ian H. MagederaAmsterdam, Netherlands ;New York :Rodopi,2014.©20141 online resource (352 p.)Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature ;75Description based upon print version of record.90-420-3875-6 1-322-33944-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- OUTSIDER BIOGRAPHY: DEFINITIONS AND CORPUS -- PARTIAL BIOGRAPHIES BY SAMUEL JOHNSON AND RICHARD HOLMES -- DE SADE ACCORDING TO SAINTE-BEUVE, APOLLINAIRE, LELY AND LEVER -- BARTHES’ AND PAUVERT’S QUESTIONING OF DE SADE BIOGRAPHY -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: ANDREW MOTION’S THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT 1794-1847 -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: PETER CAREY’S NED KELLY 1855-1880 -- AN OUTLAW IN FICTIONAL BIOGRAPHY: MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S BILLY THE KID 1859-1881 -- ‘FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES’ OF RIMBAUD, FOLLOWED BY SCEPTICISM AND ANTI-BIOGRAPHY -- ARTHUR RIMBAUD: STEINMETZ’S BIOGRAPHY AND MICHON’S BIOGRAPHICAL FICTION -- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AND SAINT GENET -- JEAN GENET: BIOGRAPHY AFTER SAINT GENET -- THE OUTSIDER’S SOLITUDE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.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.Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;75.Biography as a literary formBiography as a literary form.808.06692Magedera Ian H.1721084MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810233203321Outsider biographies4120290UNINA