Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives / edited by Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley.
Rensen, Marleen, editor.; Wiley, Christopher, editor.
2020
HM621-HM656
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Title
Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives / edited by Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley.
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN
9783030452001
303045200X
9783030452001
3030451992
9783030451998
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XV, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
HM621-HM656
Dewey Decimal Classification
700
Summary
'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 "fictional" life writing seriously as contributing to the shaping of the afterlives of artists. There may not be one way of "doing" biography, but, surely, this is the best way of doing biography research.' -- Dr Dennis Kersten, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Radboud University, The Netherlands This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing new insights on artists who straddle different nations and cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational perspectives in artists' biographies in order to deal with experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, as well as analysing cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts, Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives opens up rich avenues for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.
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Rensen, Marleen, editor.
Wiley, Christopher, editor.
Series
Palgrave studies in life writing, 2730-9185
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Print version: 9783030452025
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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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