The Sound of Truth : Constructed and Reconstructed Lives in English Novels since Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot
Cornelia Stott
HauptbeschreibungEverybody knows what biographies are and many people still turn to them for truth about their subjects. But it is more obvious than ever that we can't completely trust records of the past, just as we can't always trust an eyewitness report to be true and objective. So life-stories, and particularly those with a neat narrative structure, are increasingly to be viewed with scepticism by the critical reader. Moreover, the "death of the author" has been postulated: does this mean there is no longer a place for writer biography at all? Clearly not, and recently new impulses for the. Read more... Abstract: HauptbeschreibungEverybody knows what biographies are and many people still turn to them for truth about their subjects. But it is more obvious than ever that we can't completely trust records of the past, just as we can't always trust an eyewitness report to be true and objective. So life-stories, and particularly those with a neat narrative structure, are increasingly to be viewed with scepticism by the critical reader. Moreover, the "death of the author" has been postulated: does this mean there is no longer a place for writer biography at all? Clearly not, and recently new impulses for the
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Рік:
2011
Видавництво:
Tectum Verlag
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
225
ISBN 10:
382885320X
ISBN 13:
9783828853201
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PDF, 943 KB
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english, 2011