Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature
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Köp båda 2 för 2028 krThe Pater Newsletter very wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution
Jesse Matz, Modern Language Quarterly Saunders's account ... is the most important recent contribution to the genealogy of modern literature ... The paradoxy of autobiografiction never disorients him; rather, it inspires plentiful pithy wisdom in a book that seems to end every paragraph aphoristically. Theory and history, history and form get their due recognition, and the book as a whole is an apt and exciting tribute to its subject, capable of everything necessary to prove that life-writing has meant everything to literary modernity.
William Baker, Years Work in English Studies fascinating study
Andrew Radford, Years Work in English Studies Overall, this is a hugely impressive enterprise, in which Saunders wears his formidable erudition and theoretical expertise gracefully and wittily.
Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement It is likely to become a major critical resource, not just for research on early twentieth-century life-writing, but also as part of the ongoing revision of the whole century's literary history.
Review of English Studies a remarkable book, in its length, its historical range (Pater to Byatt) and its fluid genre crossings... Saunders explores the relationship of autobiography to fiction in general, the relationship of the synthetic category 'autobiografiction' to modernism, and by so doing gives us an unusually unified account of modernism... The sheer weight of research and knowledge is astonishing and lightly, even conversationally, worn; Saunders seems to have read every fiction, auto-fiction and pseudo-fiction from the last 150 years... Too many excellent features of this magisterial book can be mentioned only in passing
Australian Book Review Saunders can rearrange the familiar landmarks of modernist prehistory to fit an entire tradition of imaginary autobiography that has been occluded or marginalised by the grand narrative of modernisms impersonality... its new readings of well-known authors and works are dazzling; its new scholarship on unknown or little-known authors and works is fascinating. It revitalises the old literary-historical category of the transition (that is, from Victorian to modern, 1880-1920)
Yata Keiji, Virginia Woolf Review Saunders' mode of presentation is very precise and sharp... a very important book for the discussion of the relationship between Modernism and Life-Writing.
English Literature in Transition A breathtakingly comprehensive study... Self Impression is an important book that will inspire further work on life-writing in the modern period... Recent publications provide other examples of books that call out for the application of Saunders's approach. The first volume of the complete and authoritative edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain has just been published... Once again, we are in the r...
<br>Max Saunders is Professor of English at King's College London, where he teaches modern English, European, and American literature, and is Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and was a Research Fellow and then College Lecturer at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1996), the editor of Ford's Selected Poems, War Prose, and (with Richard Stang) Critical Essays (Carcanet, 1997, 1999, 2002), and has published essays on Life-writing, on Impressionism, and on Ford, Conrad, James, Forster, Eliot, Joyce, Rosamond Lehmann, Richard Aldington, May Sinclair, Lawrence, Freud, Pound, Ruskin, Anthony Burgess and others. He is also general editor of International Ford Madox Ford Studies. He is currently researching the To-Day and To-Morrow series on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.<br>
PART I: MODERN IRONISATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN-DE-SIECLE PRECURSORS; 1. Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater; 2. Aesthetic Auto/biography: Ruskin and Proust; 3. Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as disturbances in fin-de-siecle auto/biography; 4. Autobiografiction: Stephen Reynolds and A. C. Benson; 5. Auto/biografiction: Counterfeit Lives: A Taxonomy of Displacements of Fiction towards Life-Writing; 6. Literary Impressionism and Impressionist Autobiographies: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford; PART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; 7. Heteronymity I: Imaginary Authorship and Imaginary Autobiography: Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo; 8. Heteronymity II: Taxonomies of Fictional Creativity: Joyce (continued) and Stein; 9. Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in Verse: Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; 10. Satirical Auto/biografiction: Richard Aldington and Wyndham Lewis; 11. Woolf, Bloomsbury, the 'New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction; 12. After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, Byatt; CONCLUSION