Transnational perspectives on artists' lives

Transnational perspectives on artists' lives / Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley, editors.

'This impressively varied and highly accessible book is characterized by an open and inclusive attitude towards the subjects it covers. Its innovative transnationalist perspective facilitates interaction between fields that really ought to communicate more. Refreshingly, it takes "fictiona...

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Other Authors: Rensen, Marleen (Editor), Wiley, Christopher (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:Palgrave studies in life writing,
Subjects:
1800-1999
Biography as a literary form.
Artists > Biography > History and criticism.
Literature and transnationalism.
Arts and transnationalism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
Literature and transnationalism
Biography as a literary form
Arts and transnationalism
Artists > Biography
Arts
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'Writing Artists' Lives Across Nations and Cultures: Biography, Biofiction and Transnationality; Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley
  • 2. The Transnational Aspect in Harold Nicolson's The Development of English Biography; Maryam Thirriard
  • 3. Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky: A Reassessment of Transnational Identities and Abstraction through Biography; Suzanne Bode
  • 4. Frances Hodgkins: A Twentieth-Century Modernist Painter Torn Between Nations; Samantha Niederman
  • 5. "No use calling yourself South African. South African is nothing": Understanding and exploring the concept of place and nationhood in the life and music of Christopher James; Marc Röntsch
  • 6. The Spanish Translations of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories; Jane McVeigh
  • 7. Alienation and Intimacy: Transnational Writing on Julia Margaret Cameron; Tamar Hager
  • 8. A Hungarian Woman Writer's Transnational Afterlife in the Digital Era: Renée Erdős (1879-1956); Anna Menyhért
  • 9. "Something out of the way": Edmund Gosse's biography of Henrik Ibsen; Suze van der Poll
  • 10. Chopin on the Dneiper: The Musician-Poet and Boris Pasternak's Search for the Transnational; Maria Razumovskaya
  • 11. "All the nuances of his predicament": Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin; Josiane Ranguin
  • 12. Vie de Paula Modersohn Becker by Marie Darrieussecq: BetweenPortrait and Self-Portrait; Manet van Montfrans
  • 13. "Don't tell anyone": K. Schippers's novelist reflections on life-writing and transnationality; Sander Bax
  • 14. The Hours and the Nations: Virginia Woolf's Life and Art in Michael Cunningham's America; Maximiliano Jiménez
  • 15. Ethel Smyth as the composer Edith Staines in E.F. Benson's Dodo trilogy; Christopher Wiley.

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