Outsider biographies : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet : base crime and high art in biography and bio-fiction, 1744-2000

著者

• Magedera, Ian H.

書誌事項

Outsider biographies : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet : base crime and high art in biography and bio-fiction, 1744-2000

Ian H. Magedera

（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 75）

Rodopi, 2014

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Concerning 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.

目次

Acknowledgements and Dedication Introduction: Outsider Biography: Definitions and Corpus Part One: Richard Savage 1698-1743 1. Partial Biographies by Samuel Johnson and Richard Holmes Part Two: Le Marquis De Sade 1740-1814 2. De Sade According to Sainte-Beuve, Apollinaire, Lely and Lever 3. Barthes' and Pauvert's Questioning of De Sade Biography Part Three: Outlaws in Fictional Biography 4. An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: Andrew Motion's Thomas Griffiths Wainewright 1794-1847 5. An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: Peter Carey's Ned Kelly 1855-1880 6. An Outlaw in Fictional Biography: Michael Ondaatje's Billy the Kid 1859-1881 Part Four: Arthur Rimbaud 1854-1891 7. 'Family Biographies' of Rimbaud, Followed by Scepticism and Anti-biography 8. Arthur Rimbaud: Steinmetz's Biography and Michon's Biographical Fiction Part Five: Jean Genet 1910-1986 9. Jean Genet: Biography and Saint Genet 10. Jean Genet: Biography after Saint Genet Conclusions: The Outsider's Solitude Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB28729668
• ISBN:
  • 9789042038752
• 出版国コード: ne
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Amsterdam
• ページ数/冊数: 344 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA25187084