Biofiction av Michael (University of Minnesota - Morris MN USA) Lackey

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<P><EM>Biofiction: An Introduction</EM> provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form, and modeling the process of analyzing and interpreting individual texts. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, this volume combines comprehensive coverage of the core foundations of biofiction with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. The volume aims to confront and illuminate the following questions: </P><P>¿ When did biofiction come into being? </P><P>¿ What forces gave birth to it? </P><P>¿ How does it uniquely function and signify? </P><P>¿ Why has it become such a dominant aesthetic form in recent years? </P><P>This introduction will give readers a framework for evaluating specific biofictions from writers as varied as Friedrich Nietzsche, George Moore, Zora Neale Hurston, William Styron, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colm T¿ib¿ thus enabli