1st Edition

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing Genre Blending

By Marija Krsteva Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

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. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book investigates the existing developments in this field, and explores major criticism and lines of... Read more

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 Fictionalizing Hemingway.

3.1 Fictionalizing Fitzgerald

3.2 Fictionalizing Hemingway

4. Chapter Four - Analysis

4.1 Narrative identity and image building in Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

5. Chapter Five - Analysis

5.1 Narrative identity and image building in The Paris Wife

6.Conclusion

Biography

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.