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Author Hardy, Stephen, author.

Title Alternatives in biography : writing lives in diverse English-language contexts / Stephen Hardy, Martina Horáková, Michael Matthew Kaylor, & Kateřina Prajznerová
Edition First edition
Published Brno : Masaryk University Press, 2011

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Summary Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namely versions of Uranian/fictionate autobiography, bioregional biography, pastoral biography, and Indigenous collaborative life writing. American, Australian, British, Canadian, and Northern Irish perspectives are explored. Key writers are A. Newman (1854-1932), Forrest Reid (1875-1947), Emily Carr (18
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 26, 2015)
Subject Biography -- Study and teaching
Biography -- English
Autobiography -- English
English literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
Biography -- Study and teaching
English literature
Form Electronic book
Author Horáková, Martina, author.
Kaylor, Michael Matthew, author.
Prajznerova, Katerina, 1971- author.
ISBN 9788021076372
8021076372