Outsider Biographies : Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud and Genet : Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744-2000.
Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2014.
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| Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
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| Summary: | Concerning itself with biography and bio-fiction written in English and in French and also taking in American and Australian subjects, Outsider Biographies focuses on writers who have a criminal record and on notorious criminals who authors of bio-fiction consider as writers. It pursues an understanding of the formal effects of life-writers' struggles between championing their subjects and a deep ambivalence towards their subjects' crimes. The book analyses the challenge that these literary outsiders present to the mainstream French- and English-language traditions where many biographers assig. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401211437 9401211434 1322339449 9781322339443 9042038756 9789042038752 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |