A Biographical Investigation
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm
ISBN: 978-3-032-26812-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
This book examines biography as an art and literary form by uncovering the author's own experience as crime writer James Ellroy's biographer while scrutinizing how issues of reputation, perspective, time, and setting affect the genre. Powell follows the history and form of biography by analyzing recent controversies surrounding biographies of Philip Roth and John le Carré, as well as historical examples found in biographies of Byron and Beethoven. He explores the evolution of biographical styles, merging rigorous scholarship and experiential narrative in tracing the work of biographers who have historically protected their subjects, damaged their reputations, or even canceled them. All the while, he also reveals the twists, turns, and challenges he faced in rendering Ellroy’s life into literary biography.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
Weitere Infos & Material
1.-Introduction .-2.- Authorial Autonomy and External Threats.-3.- Ellroy and I.- The Relationship Between Biographer and Subject Chapter Three.-4 .- ‘A Murder in the Family’ True Crime.-Facts, Rumors and Speculation.-Part Two.-Biography.-5.-Beginnings.-Forming a Narrative.-6.- Structure.-Patterns Across History.-7.- Coda.- A Shifting Legacy.
