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03420aam a22003854a 4500 001 34FB18986A8B11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 091008s2010 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009042452 020 $a 0230202527 (hardback) 020 $a 9780230202528 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)460933783 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d BWKUK $d YDXCP $d CDX $d SILO 050 00 $a PR756 A9 L54 2010 082 00 $a 820.9/35 $2 22 245 00 $a Life writing : $b essays on autobiography, biography and literature / $c edited by Richard Bradford. 260 $a Basingstoke, UK ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2010. 300 $a xv, 317 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a In search of Peter Quennell : redefining the self in The biographer's moustache / Andrew James -- Pictures and places : enclaves of illusion in the life-writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff / Deirdre O'Byrne -- Of skunks and doorknobs : Robert Lowell and 'The business of direct experience' : Tim Hancock -- Projections of the inner 'I' : Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the personal myth / D.J. Taylor -- Goldsmith and the art of indirect autobiography / Graham Gargett -- Obstacles confronting the literary biographer / Dale Salwak -- Hartley Coleridge and the art of elf-effacement / Andrew Keanie -- 'A horse my show his good intent' : opinionated Protestant equines from Morocco to Black Beauty / Kevin De Ornellas -- Literary biography : the elephant in the academic sitting room / Richard Bradford -- Reflections on the timing of Juan Goytisolo's autobiographies / Stanley Black -- Wild realism : the fresh air of the real or the changing face of the European novel / Alexis Grohmann -- Autofiction : a brief history of a neologism / E.H. Jones -- Sick diarists and private writers of the seventeenth century / David Thorley -- Trans-genre confusion : what does autobiography think it is? / Claire Lynch -- The art of losing : the place of death in writer's memoirs / Timothy C. Baker -- 'The contrived innocence of the surface' : representing childhood memory in recent British autobiography / Nicola King -- The relics of St David Wojnarowicz : the autobiography of a mythmaker / Richard Maguire -- Reflections on life and writing / Alan Sillitoe -- A writer's work and life / Ruth Fainlight -- Richard Bradford interviews Martin Amis. 520 $a "Including original contributions by, among others, Martin Amis, Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and D.J. Taylor, this important collection examines the status and practice of literary biography and autobiographical writing, and reasserts the centrality of the relationship between authors' lives and their works"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English prose literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American prose literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Authors, English $x History and criticism $x History and criticism 650 0 $a Authors, American $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Authors $v Biography $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Autobiography 650 0 $a Biography as a literary form 700 1 $a Bradford, Richard, $d 1957- 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118025650.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170503032643.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34FB18986A8B11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search