02277nam a2200313Ia 4500 OSt 20260803094246.0 251212s2022 xx 000 0 und d 9780367747633 FEU CAVITE LIBRARY 801.95 L14b 2022 Lackey, Michael Biofiction: an introduction / Michael Lackey. New York, NY : Routledge, c 2022. 185 pp.: 23 cm. text unmediated volume Includes bibliographic references and index Biofiction: 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. in English Biographical fiction History and criticism Characters and characteristics in literature Autobiography History and criticism lcc BK fjjumarang 2024-06-11 10:54:11 0 0 0 0 12812 12698 12698 0 0 ddc 0 0 BED BED BED 2025-12-21 NULL SH0577 2026-06-18 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK