Experiments in Life-Writing

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character's story.

Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity.

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Acest volum examineaza intersectiile inovatoare de scriere de viata si fictiune experimentala din secolele XX si XXI, reunind cercetatori si biografi practicanti din mai multe discipline (limbi moderne, engleza si literatura comparata, scriere creativa). Acopera o gama larga de practici biografice, autobiografice si hibride intr-o varietate de literaturi nationale, printre care multe lucrari recente: texte care testeaza terenul intre fapt si fictiune, care sunt marcate de metode impresioniste, autoreflexive si intermediare, de recursul lor la mit, folclor, poezie sau drama pe masura ce povestesc povestea unui personaj istoric. Intre ele, eseurile fac lumina asupra gamei largi de experimentari auto / biografice din Europa moderna si vor atrage cititorii interesati de istorie si politica formei in scrierea vietii: in modurile in care abaterile de la paradigmele generice traditionale sunt legate in mod complex de puncte de vedere specifice ale subiectivitatii, cu intrebari de identitate personala, comunala si nationala. Introducerea acestei carti este acces liber sub un CC BY Licenta 4.0 prin link.springer.com.