LEADER 03895nam 2200601 450 001 9910810233203321 005 20230803200039.0 010 $a94-012-1143-4 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401211437 035 $a(CKB)2670000000578292 035 $a(EBL)1762110 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001435328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12012521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001435328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11428617 035 $a(PQKB)10037573 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1762110 035 $a(OCoLC)890589944$z(OCoLC)886744234$z(OCoLC)890437898 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401211437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1762110 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10992228 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL665226 035 $a(OCoLC)897069736 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000578292 100 $a20141219h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOutsider biographies $eSavage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet: base crime and high art in biography and bio-fiction, 1744-2000 /$fIan H. Magedera 210 1$aAmsterdam, Netherlands ;$aNew York :$cRodopi,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 1 $aTextxet. Studies in Comparative Literature ;$v75 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3875-6 311 $a1-322-33944-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aConcerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers? struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects? crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assign merit to productive lives well lived. The book?s approach illuminates both differences in those traditions from the mid-eighteenth, to the twenty-first century and a convergence between them, evident in the experimental-cum-fictional devices in recent English-language biography. Outsider Biographies advances wide-ranging new interpretations of the biographical writing on each of its seven subjects, but does so in a way that invites the reader picking up the book out of a passion for just one of those subjects, to follow the thread onto another and yet another. 410 0$aText (Rodopi (Firm)) ;$v75. 606 $aBiography as a literary form 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 676 $a808.06692 700 $aMagedera$b Ian H.$01721084 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810233203321 996 $aOutsider biographies$94120290 997 $aUNINA