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Autobiographies of Others

Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction

By: Lucia Boldrini

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Autobiographies of Others

Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction

By: Lucia Boldrini

This book studies the tension between historicity and the desire to free the subject from historical necessity that defines novels that are presented as if they were the autobiographies of historical personages, novels that gesture towards historical factuality and literary fictionality. Boldrini visits autobiographies of others, or ‘heterobiographies,’that are distinguished by the acknowledgment in their fictional structure and ideological premises of the operation involved in assuming another’s voice, of the historical and philosophical gap inherent in the ‘double I’ they stage. Unlike more traditional examples of the historical/biographical novel, their aim is not so much the reconstruction of a historically believable context and individual, but the very exploration of that gap: of changing conceptions of selfhood; of the relationships between writing, history, and subjectivity; and of the intellectual categories that shape our understanding of these relationships. The analysis of texts by authors such as David Malouf, Peter Carey, Michael Ondaatje, Gilbert Adair, Anna Banti, and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán shows that heterobiography is a powerful literary and intellectual tool employed to reflect critically on cultural, historical, and philosophical constructions of the human; on individual identity, its representations, and its formation through dialogue with the other; on the relationships of power that define the subject socially and legally; of the ethics of the voice and the ethical implications of literary practices of representation; and, therefore, also on the social, political, and cultural role of the literary writer.

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Routledge

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0415507375

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9780415507370

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake

By: Lucia Boldrini

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Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake

By: Lucia Boldrini

Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521792762

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9780521792769

Polysaccharide Building Blocks

A Sustainable Approach to the Development of Renewable Biomaterials

By: Youssef Habibi,Lucian A. Lucia

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Polysaccharide Building Blocks

A Sustainable Approach to the Development of Renewable Biomaterials

By: Youssef Habibi,Lucian A. Lucia

This book is an archival reference for the evolving field of biomaterials and their applications in society, focusing on their composition, properties, characterization, chemistry and applications in bioenergy, chemicals, and novel materials and biomaterials. It has broad appeal due to the recent heightened awareness around bioenergy and biomass as potential replacements for petroleum feedstocks. The book is divided into three parts: cellulose-based biomaterials, chitin and chitosan biomaterials, and hemicelluloses and other polysaccharides. Each chapter addresses a separate biomaterial, discussing its chemical, physical, and biological attributes, and hones in on each compound's intrinsic tunability for numerous chemical transformations. In the current quest for a "green" economy and resources, this book will help inspire scientists towards novel sources for chemicals, materials, and energy in the years to come.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470874198

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9780470874196

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake

By: Lucia Boldrini

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Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake

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Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques.

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Autobiographies of Others

Autobiographies of Others

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Polysaccharide Building Blocks

Polysaccharide Building Blocks

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

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