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'While the biographical novel has created an openness to representing lives in fiction it is usually expected to provide a disclaimer certifying the work’s unreliability despite its potential for truth-telling and rich tools for writers wishing to tell the stories of real people. Even so, more serious attention to the historical novel since Lukács, the impact of the postmodern novel, plus the variety of published works that have adopted fictional strategies to tell lives over the last half century suggest this perspective is shifting. Using Ina Schabert’s seminal work on fictional biography as a scholarly reference point, this paper explores fiction’s biographical capacity, turning to published works and personal writing practice to try to reappraise the potential of fiction as a mode of biography.' (Publication abstract)
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https://textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/25307-discarding-the-disclaimer-reappraising-fiction-as-a-mode-of-biography
Discarding the Disclaimer? Reappraising Fiction as a Mode of Biography
TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
Subjects:
- One Life : My Mother's Story 2015 single work biography
- The Black Dress : Mary MacKillop's Early Years 2005 single work novel
- Pennies for Hitler 2012 single work children's fiction
- Louisa 1987 single work biography
- Poppy 1990 single work novel
- True History of the Kelly Gang 2000 single work novel
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