World Biofictionalists in Translation
Literature as Existential Map
$169.99
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2027
Summary
Seventeen authors of the world’s most famous biofictions discuss their works with literary scholars to answer vitally important questions about the relevance and power of literature.
How do authors metaphorize the life of a real person in order to diagnose cultural sicknesses and offer readers healthier and more just ways of thinking and doing? How can biofiction fictionalize the life of a person in order to give readers an existential map for becoming a more autonomo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798765137697 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Professor Michael Lackey |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Biofiction Studies |
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Professor Michael Lackey
Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris, USA. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis’ Christian Reich (2012), Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists (2014), The American Biographical Novel (2016), and German Exile Biofiction: The Metaphorical Art of Counteracting Christian Nationalism (2026).
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