Alternatives in Biography
Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael Matthew Kaylor, Kateřina Prajznerová: Alternatives in Biography
Writing Lives in Diverse English-Language Contexts
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 (1871–1945), Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919), John Berger (1926–), Peter Ackroyd (1949–), Paul Carter (1951–), Rita (1921–1996) and Jackie Huggins (1956–), and Kim Scott (1957–) and Hazel Brown (1925–).
Authors: Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael Matthew Kaylor, Kateřina Prajznerová
ISBN 978-80-210-5757-9
DOI: 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5757-2011
300 p.
Paperback
170×240 mm
Price 350 Kč
Citation:
Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael Matthew Kaylor, Kateřina Prajznerová: Alternatives in Biography. Writing Lives in Diverse English-Language Contexts. First edition. Brno : Masaryk University Press, 2011. 300 p. ISBN 978-80-210-5757-9. DOI: 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-5757-2011.
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Versions of Pastoral Biography:
Ackroyd, Carter, Berger (by Stephen Hardy)
Indigenous Collaborative Life Writing:
Narrative Transgression in Auntie Rita and Kayang and Me (by Martina Horaková)
Uranian Autobiography:
Newman’s Rondeaux of Boyhood and Reid’s Apostate (by Michael Matthew Kaylor)
Bioregional Biography:
The Landscapes of the Lives of Emily Carr and Emma Bell Miles (by Kateřina Prajznerová)
