Biography Genre Variations: Iris Mudoch’s Life

Authors

  • Aliona Matiychak Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2015.92.099

Keywords:

Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Peter Conradi, biography, memoir, anti-biography, biographical essay, biopic

Abstract

The article outlines historiography, epistemological and source study problems of Iris Murdoch’s biographies. Such types of biographies as academic and literary ones, memoirs, biographical essay and anti-biography are analysed. Individual techniques of biography writers are identified as well as the limits of authors’ interpretation and intermedial trends of the biographical genre are specified

Author Biography

Aliona Matiychak, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

Department of Foreign Languages for Humanitarian Colleges

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

2 Kotsiubynskiy Street, 58012, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

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Published

2015-12-25

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Matiychak, A. “Biography Genre Variations: Iris Mudoch’s Life”. Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 92, Dec. 2015, pp. 99-116, doi:10.31861/pytlit2015.92.099.

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No. 92 (2015)

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Genre Study

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