02141nam a2200265Ia 4500003000400000005001700004008004400021020001800065040002300083082002100106100002000127245005300147260004000200300001300240300001100253336000900264337001500273338001100288500004800299505137500347546001501722650004801737650004901785650004101834OSt20260803094246.0251212s2022    xx            000 0 und d     a9780367747633  cFEU CAVITE LIBRARY  a801.95 L14b 2022  aLackey, Michael1 aBiofiction: ban introduction /cMichael Lackey.  aNew York, NY :bRoutledge,cc 2022.  a185 pp.:  c23 cm.  atext  aunmediated  avolume  aIncludes bibliographic references and index  aBiofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions:  • When did biofiction come into being?  • What forces gave birth to it?  • How does it uniquely function and signify?  • Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years?  This introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Tóibín, thus enabling readers to assess the value and impact of individual works on the culture at large. Spanning nineteenth-century origins to contemporary debates and adaptations, this book not only equips the reader with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biofiction but also provides a valuable guide to the uncanny power of the biographical novel to transform cultural attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs.  ain English  aBiographical fictionxHistory and criticism  aCharacters and characteristics in literature  aAutobiographyxHistory and criticism