Object's details: Scholar – Fictionist – Memoirist: David Lodge’s Documentary (Self-)Biography in Quite a Good Time to be Born: 1935–1975

Provider:Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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Title:
Scholar – Fictionist – Memoirist: David Lodge’s Documentary (Self-)Biography in Quite a Good Time to be Born: 1935–1975
Creator:
Kusek, Robert
Description:
Over the last decade or so, David Lodge has become not only a reader but also an avid practitioner of “fact-based writing” - be it the biographical novel (The Master of 2004 and A Man of Parts 2011), the autobiographical novel (Deaf Sentence of 2008), the biographical essay (Lives in Writing of 2014) and - finally - a proper autobiography (Quite a Good Time to Be Born of 2015). The aim of this paper is to analyse Lodge’s recent turn to life narratives and, in particular, his autobiographical story of 2015; and, consequently, to address the following questions: Does Lodge’s memoir offer “an experiment in autobiography” (to quote H.G. Wells, one of Lodge’s favourites), or remain a conventional life story immune to the tenets of contemporary life writing? Is it the work of a (self- )historian, or a novelist? Does it belong to the “regime of truth,” or is it the product of memory? Finally, is it, indeed, a memoir (as its subtitle claims), or a specimen of self-biography? The paper will show special interest in the work’s generic characteristics and will offer an attempt to locate Quite a Good Time to Be Born on the map of contemporary life writing practices.
Object availability:
free access
Date:
2016.12.08
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
Peer-reviewed articles
Language:
English
Source:
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 51 No. 1 (2016); 115-131;
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 51 Nr 1 (2016); 115-131;
2082-5102;
0081-6272
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2016-0005/28906
Subject:
David Lodge;
memoir;
auto/biography;
documentary biography
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2016-0005
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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