Einleitung: Biographik zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme

Klein, Christian

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“…Another example is László F. Földényi's biography Heinrich von Kleist: Im Netz der Wörter (1999; "Heinrich von Kleist: In the Web of Words"), which consists of ninety-six thematic chapters in alphabetical order of their titles-an arrangement that systematically breaks with the "phantasmagoria of the linear life course," as Klein notes. 67 The device of the portmanteau narrative, by contrast, does not so much upset the chronology of a story as its coherence and internal logic. Javier Marías's Negra espalda del tiempo (1998; Dark Back of Time)…”

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Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction

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2017

Experiments in Life-Writing

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Other people's life stories fascinate us, and we seem to have an urgent need to record these stories. As writers continue to experiment with the formal and aesthetic possibilities of rendering their subjects' lives in ever new ways, the modes of writing about historical lives have diversified enormously, and continue to do so. The proliferation of public interest in accounts of historical lives in recent decades-captured by such buzzwords as "biography boom" or "memoir craze"-is reflected in the similarly expanding field of life-writing studies, as scholars regularly re-conceptualise their object of study to keep pace with the rapid evolution of life-writing forms and to incorporate the new insights their discipline has yielded. Within this context, the term "life-writing" itself has emerged to reflect the diverse work conducted in the field. It has now come to stand for a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but also letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, court proceedings, . . . marginalia, nonce writings, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms. 1

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Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction

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2017

Experiments in Life-Writing

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Einleitung: Biographik zwischen Theorie und Praxis. Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme

Cited by 11 publications

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Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction

Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction

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