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Literary biography [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Michael Benton
| Literary biography [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Michael Benton |
| Autore | Benton Michael <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/492 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, English - Biography - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English prose literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Authors - Authorship Biography as a literary form |
| ISBN |
1-282-54983-9
9786612549830 1-4443-1006-2 1-4443-1007-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Literary Biography; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literary Biography Now and Then; The Cinderella of Literary Studies; The Rise and Rise of Literary Biography; Dr Johnson: Biographer, Theorist and Subject; Virginia Woolf: Time, Memory and Identity; 2 Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales; Aspects of Narrative; (i) Beginnings: Charlotte Brontë; (ii) Middles: Thomas Hardy; (iii) Endings: Jane Austen; The Naked Biographer; Inventing the Truth; 3 Reading Biography; Biographer, Biography and the Reader; Imagining Blake; Problems of a Hybrid Form; Reading Lessons
4 Literary BiomythographyBiomythography; Myth-Making: The Brontë Paradigm; (i) Facts: Selection and 'Spin'; (ii) Fact into Fiction; (iii) Fiction into Myth; (iv) Myth into 'Faction'; (v) Demythologising the Brontës; Variations on the Theme; (i) Byron; (ii) Dickens; (iii) Sylvia Plath; Conclusions; 5 Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man; Virtual Shakespeares; (i) The Facts; (ii) The Theatrical Context; (iii) The Social Context; (iv) The Shakespeare Mythos; (v) The Shakespeare Canon; The Implied Author: Inferential Biography; (i) The Art of Love: The Sonnets (ii) Prejudice, Discrimination and the Law: The Merchant of Venice(iii) War and the Politics of Nationhood: Henry V; (iv) Language and Thinking: Hamlet; (v) Art and Artifice: The Tempest; The Limits of Imagination; 6 Literary Biography and Portraiture; Sister Arts; (i) Biography and Portraiture: Reynolds's Portrait of Dr Johnson; (ii) Reading the Image: Cassandra Austen's Sketch of Jane Austen; (iii) Visual Myth-Making: Henry Weekes's Shelley Monument; (iv) Celebrity Image: Thomas Phillips's Portrait of Byron in Albanian Dress; (v) Visual Memoir: Joseph Severn's Portrait of John Keats (vi) Bardography: The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare(vii) The Inner Life: R. W. Buss's Dickens's Dream; (viii) Sisters' Arts: Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Virginia Woolf; (ix) 'To prepare a face ...': Patrick Heron's Portrait of T. S. Eliot; (x) Branwell's Ghost: Branwell Brontë's Portrait of his Three Sisters; Art to Order; 7 Comparative Biography: Dickens's 'Lives'; The Victorian Dickens; The Modern Dickens; The Post-Modern Dickens; Lives and Times; 8 Literary Auto/Biography; Acts of Self-Creation in Wordsworth and Joyce; Wordsworth's 'biographic verse' Joyce's 'artist, like the God of creation'Masks and Metaphors; 9 Biography in Practice; An Interview with Dominic Hibberd, author of Wilfred Owen: A New Biography; Living with the Subject; Imagining Wilfred; Matters of Life and Death; 10 Authorised Lives; The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry; Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd; T. S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd; Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor; Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion; Contemporary Lives; 11 Literary Lives: Scenes and Stories; Dinner with Dr Johnson and John Wilkes; Dinner with Mrs Ramsay; Biography and Fiction 12 Biography and the Future |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910270928303321 |
Benton Michael <1939->
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| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary biography : an introduction / / Michael Benton
| Literary biography : an introduction / / Michael Benton |
| Autore | Benton Michael <1939-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820.9/492 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, English - Biography - History and criticism - Theory, etc
English prose literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc Authors - Authorship Biography as a literary form |
| ISBN |
1-282-54983-9
9786612549830 1-4443-1006-2 1-4443-1007-0 |
| Classificazione |
930.2
820.9/492 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Literary Biography; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Literary Biography Now and Then; The Cinderella of Literary Studies; The Rise and Rise of Literary Biography; Dr Johnson: Biographer, Theorist and Subject; Virginia Woolf: Time, Memory and Identity; 2 Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales; Aspects of Narrative; (i) Beginnings: Charlotte Brontë; (ii) Middles: Thomas Hardy; (iii) Endings: Jane Austen; The Naked Biographer; Inventing the Truth; 3 Reading Biography; Biographer, Biography and the Reader; Imagining Blake; Problems of a Hybrid Form; Reading Lessons
4 Literary BiomythographyBiomythography; Myth-Making: The Brontë Paradigm; (i) Facts: Selection and 'Spin'; (ii) Fact into Fiction; (iii) Fiction into Myth; (iv) Myth into 'Faction'; (v) Demythologising the Brontës; Variations on the Theme; (i) Byron; (ii) Dickens; (iii) Sylvia Plath; Conclusions; 5 Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man; Virtual Shakespeares; (i) The Facts; (ii) The Theatrical Context; (iii) The Social Context; (iv) The Shakespeare Mythos; (v) The Shakespeare Canon; The Implied Author: Inferential Biography; (i) The Art of Love: The Sonnets (ii) Prejudice, Discrimination and the Law: The Merchant of Venice(iii) War and the Politics of Nationhood: Henry V; (iv) Language and Thinking: Hamlet; (v) Art and Artifice: The Tempest; The Limits of Imagination; 6 Literary Biography and Portraiture; Sister Arts; (i) Biography and Portraiture: Reynolds's Portrait of Dr Johnson; (ii) Reading the Image: Cassandra Austen's Sketch of Jane Austen; (iii) Visual Myth-Making: Henry Weekes's Shelley Monument; (iv) Celebrity Image: Thomas Phillips's Portrait of Byron in Albanian Dress; (v) Visual Memoir: Joseph Severn's Portrait of John Keats (vi) Bardography: The Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare(vii) The Inner Life: R. W. Buss's Dickens's Dream; (viii) Sisters' Arts: Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Virginia Woolf; (ix) 'To prepare a face ...': Patrick Heron's Portrait of T. S. Eliot; (x) Branwell's Ghost: Branwell Brontë's Portrait of his Three Sisters; Art to Order; 7 Comparative Biography: Dickens's 'Lives'; The Victorian Dickens; The Modern Dickens; The Post-Modern Dickens; Lives and Times; 8 Literary Auto/Biography; Acts of Self-Creation in Wordsworth and Joyce; Wordsworth's 'biographic verse' Joyce's 'artist, like the God of creation'Masks and Metaphors; 9 Biography in Practice; An Interview with Dominic Hibberd, author of Wilfred Owen: A New Biography; Living with the Subject; Imagining Wilfred; Matters of Life and Death; 10 Authorised Lives; The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry; Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd; T. S. Eliot by Peter Ackroyd; Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor; Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion; Contemporary Lives; 11 Literary Lives: Scenes and Stories; Dinner with Dr Johnson and John Wilkes; Dinner with Mrs Ramsay; Biography and Fiction 12 Biography and the Future |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815778403321 |
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Benton Michael <1939->
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| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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