Opis

• Tytuł:
  Scholar – Fictionist – Memoirist: David Lodge’s Documentary (Self-)Biography in Quite a Good Time to be Born: 1935–1975
• Twórca:
  Kusek, Robert
• Opis:
  Over the last decade or so, David Lodge has become not only a reader but also an avid practitioner of “fact-based writing” - be it the biographical novel (The Master of 2004 and A Man of Parts 2011), the autobiographical novel (Deaf Sentence of 2008), the biographical essay (Lives in Writing of 2014) and - finally - a proper autobiography (Quite a Good Time to Be Born of 2015). The aim of this paper is to analyse Lodge’s recent turn to life narratives and, in particular, his autobiographical story of 2015; and, consequently, to address the following questions: Does Lodge’s memoir offer “an experiment in autobiography” (to quote H.G. Wells, one of Lodge’s favourites), or remain a conventional life story immune to the tenets of contemporary life writing? Is it the work of a (self- )historian, or a novelist? Does it belong to the “regime of truth,” or is it the product of memory? Finally, is it, indeed, a memoir (as its subtitle claims), or a specimen of self-biography? The paper will show special interest in the work’s generic characteristics and will offer an attempt to locate Quite a Good Time to Be Born on the map of contemporary life writing practices.
• Dostępność obiektu:
  Dostęp otwarty
• Data:
  2016.12.08
• Typ:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Język:
  angielski
• Źródło:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 51 No. 1 (2016); 115-131;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 51 Nr 1 (2016); 115-131;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Wydawca:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relacja: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2016-0005/28906
• Temat i słowa kluczowe:
  David Lodge;
  memoir;
  auto/biography;
  documentary biography
• Identyfikator: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2016-0005
• Dostawca danych:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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