The protean forms of life writing. Auto biography in english, 1680-2000

Stimulated by Paul John Eakin's most recent reflections on autobiographical studies and by Richard Holmes's state of the art on biographical studies, the contributors to this collection of essays present some significant case studies of auto/biography and related subgenres: spiritual autobiography, 'heterobiography', Kunstlerautobiographie, biography and memoir, fictional biography and blog/diary – all of them seen in their time and place specificity, and written by authors belonging to the English and American canon (Wordsworth, De Quincey, Ruskin, Yeats, Orwell, Lodge, Barnes, Toibin... Henry James and Nabokov) as well as to an Anglophone colonial and postcolonial canon still in progress (Hal Porter, Patrick White, Keri Hulme, V. S. Naipaul). Cerca nel volume: Angelo RighettiAngelo Righetti is Professor of English and New Literatures in English at the University of Verona. His publications include studies of Browning's and T. S. Eliot's poetry, annotated bilingual editions of Wordsworth's and Browning's poems (1998 and 1999), and articles on Byron, Ruskin, Joyce. He has recently edited The Brand of the Wild and early Sketches (2002) by the Australian novelist and short story writer Vance Palmer, and Theory and Practice of the Short Story: Australia, New Zealand, The South Pacific (2006).