Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography

by Michael Benton

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137549572
• ISBN13: 9781137549570
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"