Towards a Theory of Life-Writing - Genre Blending

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marija Krsteva
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032356440
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235644-0
• No. of pages: 116
• Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000