Formaat: Hardback, 276 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x148 mm, kaal: 508 g, 4 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 276 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
Formaat: Hardback, 276 pages, kõrgus x laius: 210x148 mm, kaal: 508 g, 4 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 276 p. 6 illus., 4 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
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, and analyses 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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The collection contributors come from a variety of disciplineslifewriting studies, history, literature, music, and visual artto consider biographical subjects from around the globe. ... The book encourages the exploration of the space between author and subject, and between subject and audiencetopics that lifewriting scholars have explored, especially in the area of autobiography ... . (Julie Codell, Biography, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)
1 Writing Artists' Lives Across Nations and Cultures: Biography, Biofiction and Transnationality
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Marleen Rensen
Christopher Wiley
Part I (Re)Thinking Biography---Artists in Between Nations and Cultures
2 The Transnational Aspect in Harold Nicolson's The Development of English Biography
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Maryam Thirriard
3 Gabriele Munter and Wassily Kandinsky: A Reassessment of Transnational Identities and Abstraction Through Biography
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Suzanne Bode
4 Frances Hodgkins: A Twentieth-Century Modernist Painter Torn Between Nations
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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
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Marc Rontsch
Part II Writing the Lives of Transnational Artists
6 The Spanish Translations of Richmal Crompton's Just William Stories
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Jane McVeigh
7 Alienation and Intimacy: Transnational Writing on Julia Margaret Cameron
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Tamar Hager
8 A Hungarian Woman Writer's Transnational Afterlife in the Digital Era: Renee Erdos (1879-1956)
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Anna Menyhert
Part III Artists on Transnational Artists
9 `Something Out of the Way': Edmund Gosse's Biography of Henrik Ibsen
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Suze van der Poll
10 Chopin on the Dnieper: The Musician-Poet and Boris Pasternak's Search for the Transnational
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Maria Razumovskaya
11 `All the Nuances of His Predicament': Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin
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Josiane Ranguin
12 Vie de Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq: Between Portrait and Self-Portrait
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Manet van Montfrans
Part IV Fictional Representations of Artists' Lives Transnationally
13 `Don't Tell Anyone': K. Schippers's Reflections as Novelist on Life-Writing and Transnationality
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Sander Bax
14 The Hours and the Nations: Virginia Woolf's Life and Art in Michael Cunningham's America
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Maximiliano Jimenez
15 Ethel Smyth as the Composer Edith Staines in E. F. Benson's Dodo Trilogy
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Christopher Wiley
Index
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Marleen Rensen is Senior Lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited and introduced the special collection Life Writing and European Identities (2019) and the volume Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life Writing (2020).
Christopher Wiley is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, UK. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters, and the co-editor of volumes including Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists (2020), Writing About Contemporary Musicians (2020) and The Routledge Companion to Autoethnography and Self-Reflexivity in Music Studies (2021).
