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Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namel...

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Hauptverfasser: Hardy, Stephen (VerfasserIn), Horáková, Martina (VerfasserIn), Kaylor, Michael Matthew (VerfasserIn), Prajznerova, Katerina, 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Brno : Masaryk University Press, 2011.
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung:Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namely versions of Uranian/fictionate autobiography, bioregional biography, pastoral biography, and Indigenous collaborative life writing. American, Australian, British, Canadian, and Northern Irish perspectives are explored. Key writers are A. Newman (1854-1932), Forrest Reid (1875-1947), Emily Carr (18.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9788021076372
8021076372