{"product_id":"biofiction-an-introduction-paperback","title":"Biofiction: An Introduction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Lackey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBiofiction: An Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- When did biofiction come into being? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- What forces gave birth to it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- How does it uniquely function and signify? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm Tóibín, thus enabling readers to assess the value and impact of individual works on the culture at large. Spanning nineteenth-century origins to contemporary debates and adaptations, this book not only equips the reader with a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biofiction but also provides a valuable guide to the uncanny power of the biographical novel to transform cultural attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lackey\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. As a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century intellectual, political, and literary history, he has authored and edited ten books, mostly about biofiction, including \u003cem\u003eTruthful Fictions \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Conversations with Biographical Novelists\u003c\/em\u003e, which contain interviews with some of the world's most famous biographical novelists. He has also guest-edited many special issues about biofiction for journals like \u003cem\u003ea\/b: Auto\/Biography Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eÉire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMississippi Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52545886060851,"sku":"9780367747633","price":96.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UnVNckZJcHRRRGtENkFZVW40WkUwQT09.webp?v=1760972325","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/biofiction-an-introduction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}