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2016
Abstract Starting with Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the chapter argues that the mimetic concept of portraiture is disturbed at the fin de siècle as it becomes increasingly subjectivized: portraits come to be read as autobiographical; as expressing the artist as well as the sitter.
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Abstract Starting with Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the chapter argues that the mimetic concept of portraiture is disturbed at the fin de siècle as it becomes increasingly subjectivized: portraits come to be read as autobiographical; as expressing the artist as well as the sitter.
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2012
Two hundred years ago life writing was already highly popular in the form of autobiography, memoir, biography, journals, essays and diaries. It now commands a huge share of the publishing market, as there is an enormous demand from readers for narratives based directly on ‘real lives’.
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Two hundred years ago life writing was already highly popular in the form of autobiography, memoir, biography, journals, essays and diaries. It now commands a huge share of the publishing market, as there is an enormous demand from readers for narratives based directly on ‘real lives’.
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2022
Abstract The chapter discusses Pater’s imaginary portraits as precursors of ‘the New Biography’, defined by the modernists in rebellion against Victorian life-writing. The Imaginary Portraits constitute a set of alternative lives to Leslie Stephen’s Dictionary of National Biography: international in scope, they pose a counter discourse ...
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Abstract The chapter discusses Pater’s imaginary portraits as precursors of ‘the New Biography’, defined by the modernists in rebellion against Victorian life-writing. The Imaginary Portraits constitute a set of alternative lives to Leslie Stephen’s Dictionary of National Biography: international in scope, they pose a counter discourse ...
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Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography
Life Writing, 2023J. Popkin
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Forms of Resistance: Uses of Memoir, Theory, and Fiction in Trans Life Writing
The Limits of Life Writing, 2017This article examines the forms of writing that transgender (hereafter ‘trans’) people in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia have used to convey their experiences to a wider public, since the first sex reassignment surgeries were performed ...
J. Jacques
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Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book
Life Writing, 2021Catherine Brist
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Counter-Storytelling through Graphic Life Writing
Language Arts, 2016Using the lens of critical race theory, this study examines the schooling experiences of racialized and indigenous girls in autobiographical and biographical picturebooks.
Elizabeth Marshall
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Life Writing and Graphic Narratives
Body Language, 2016This text is fashioned from an email exchange between the authors during the spring, summer, and fall of 2015. Our aim with this informal, collaborative process was to develop a few of the key principles for discussing graphic narratives as a mode of ...
Krista Quesenberry, S. Squier
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2023
Abstract This chapter examines the contested status of life-writing and biography. It seeks to clear a middle path between different positions on life-writing’s claim to be literary criticism by resisting mere dismissals of it, on the one hand, and noticing that biography’s explanatory power is limited, on the other.
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Abstract This chapter examines the contested status of life-writing and biography. It seeks to clear a middle path between different positions on life-writing’s claim to be literary criticism by resisting mere dismissals of it, on the one hand, and noticing that biography’s explanatory power is limited, on the other.
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2000
Abstract Mary ‘S death had made Hardy think more intensively about his own, and in February 1916 he began arranging for Florence and Sydney Cockerell to become his joint literary executors, recompensed out of royalties for their services.
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Abstract Mary ‘S death had made Hardy think more intensively about his own, and in February 1916 he began arranging for Florence and Sydney Cockerell to become his joint literary executors, recompensed out of royalties for their services.
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