Scholar – fictionist – memoirist: David Lodge’s documentary (self-)biography in "Quite a Good Time to Be Born: 1935–1975"
| dc.contributor.author | Kusek, Robert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-31T08:02:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-31T08:02:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 51.1(2016), pp. 115-131 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0081-6272 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19252 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Adam Mickiewicz University | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | David Lodge | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | memoir | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | auto/biography | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | documentary biography | pl_PL |
| dc.title | Scholar – fictionist – memoirist: David Lodge’s documentary (self-)biography in "Quite a Good Time to Be Born: 1935–1975" | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |
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