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Title: | Discarding the disclaimer? Reappraising fiction as a mode of biography | Contributor(s): | Vicars, James (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20751 | Open Access Link: | http://www.textjournal.com.au/april16/vicars.htm | Abstract: | While the biographical novel has created an openness to representing lives in fiction it is usually expected to provide a disclaimer certifying the work's unreliability despite its potential for truth-telling and rich tools for writers wishing to tell the stories of real people. Even so, more serious attention to the historical novel since Lukács, the impact of the postmodern novel, plus the variety of published works that have adopted fictional strategies to tell lives over the last half century suggest this perspective is shifting. Using Ina Schabert's seminal work on fictional biography as a scholarly reference point, this paper explores fiction's biographical capacity, turning to published works and personal writing practice to try to reappraise the potential of fiction as a mode of biography. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Text, 20(1), p. 1-22 | Publisher: | Australasian Association of Writing Programs | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1327-9556 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950199 Arts and Leisure not elsewhere classified 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280122 Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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