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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
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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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