Marija Krsteva

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing

Genre Blending

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 144mm x 223mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781032356426
• ISBN-10: 1032356421
• Artikelnr.: 66269649

Autorenporträt

Marija Krsteva holds a PhD degree in American literature from the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in Bulgaria. Her area of interest involves American studies, history, culture and literature, mainly contemporary literature, life-writing and genre blending. She has worked at the University "Goce Delcev" in Stip, Faculty of Philology since 2012 where she teaches American studies. Marija Krsteva is a Hemingway Society fellow for 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Chapter One - Postmodern genre play
1.1 Genre in literature
1.2 Genre play in postmodern writing
2. Chapter Two - Auto/Biography and literature
2.1 Literary biography
2.2 Biopreservation: the building block of postmodern literary biography
3. Chapter Three - F. Scot Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as fictional
characters
3.1 Fictionalizing Hemingway
3.2 Fictionalizing Fitzgerald
4. Chapter Four - Narrative identity and image building in Z: A Novel of
Zelda Fitzgerald
5. Chapter Five - Narrative identity and image building in The Paris Wife
6.Conclusion