Biofiction
Volume 39, Number 1
November-December 2017
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Michael Lackey’s Introduction to Focus: “Biofiction — Its Origins, Natures, and Evolutions”
Todd Avery’s “Art and Ethics: Lytton Strachey and the Origins of Biofiction”
Virginia Newhall Rademacher’s “Truth and Circumstantiality in Javier Cercas’s Biofictions”
Monica Latham’s “Modernist Titans and Postmodernist Mythobiographication”
Katherine West Scheil’s “Fantasy Anne Hathaways”
Valentina Vannucci’s “Genealogizing the Female Self: The Right to Parrhēsia”
Kelly Gardiner and Catherine Padmore’s “Biofictions from the Antipodes”
M. Allen Cunningham reviews Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time
Lara Dodds reviews Danielle Dutton’s Margaret the First
Monica Latham reviews Lauren Binet, Sam Taylor, trans., The Seventh Function of Language
Pedro Ponce reviews Karen An-Hwei Lee’s Sonata in K
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