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Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography by Michael Benton, Michael George Benton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography about?

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 data in the art of life-writing, and the lit

Who reads Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Michael Benton, Michael George Benton
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781137549570
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
History, Biography, Memoir
Updated
2026-03-25

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