Michael Lackey
Biographic Data
| ID | 976263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Lackey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Lackey |
| SIGNATURE | LACKEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota Morris |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Klaus Mann and the Biofictional Journey from Moral Truth to Mental Health
Biofiction is fiction that names its protagonist after a real person. In the 1930s it became a dominant literary form among prominent German writers. For Thomas Mann, this genre could be used to provide readers with an existential map for moral living, but Thomas's son, Klaus, who was openly gay, believed that his father's commitment to morality led to mental illness. Klaus Mann authored biofictions that metaphorized the lives of real people to r…
Frederick the Great: Thomas Mann on the Political Function of the Biofictional Symbol
Frederick the Great is one of the most important biographical novels of the twentieth century, which is strange, since it does not technically exist. In 1905, Mann started work on a biographical novel about the Prussian monarch, and though he never completed it, his character Gustav Aschenbach from “Death in Venice” did. Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and while there were a few important bio…
Biofiction as Cultural Intervention: The Tragic Failure of Lion Feuchtwanger’s Jud Süß
As a literary form, biofiction started to dominate in the 1990s, and over the last ten years, biofiction studies has surged dramatically. While scholars acknowledge that there were some important biofictions in the nineteenth century, the form first started to catch fire in the early twentieth century, especially among German writers who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Klaus Mann, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Broch, Fra…
The Biographical Novelist as an Agent of Pain: A Conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
Voicing Female Power through Biofiction: A Conversation with Mary Sharratt
German Biofiction from Nietzsche to the Present
Unresolving Characters in Biofiction: A Conversation with Colm Tóibín
Additional informationFundingI would like to thank the University of Minnesota for making the funding for this project possible
The Primacy of Perception in Biofiction: A Conversation with Charles Johnson
The Dynamics of Social Injustice in Biofiction: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Coalition Building through Biofiction: A Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes
African American Biofiction: An Introduction
The Power of Biofiction's Poetic Imagination: A Conversation with Louis Edwards
Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction. Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and George Moore authored in the late 19th and early …
Biofiction’s Uncanny Impact on Undergraduate Students and Research
In the college classroom, biofiction has a powerful impact on students, oftentimes motivating them to go above and beyond the assignment. Given its uncanny power, Michael Lackey wondered if students could make significant contributions to biofiction studies by interviewing authors of specific novels. As he discovered, the answer is yes. In this introduction, he describes how he came upon the idea of mentoring undergraduates in the art of intervie…
Beyond Postmodern Blurring: Epistemic Precision in Writing about a Life
Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous claim that truth is a conceptual illusion that language-users have forgotten to see as provisional and evolving was one of the main ideas informing the major postmodern
Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe
In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature
The Ethical Benefits and Challenges of Biofiction for Children
I don't think that biofiction for kids is very ethical. For most kids, it would be hard to tell if it is fiction or nonfiction. If they can't tell that it is fiction or nonfiction, they might have
The Futures of Biofiction Studies
That biofiction has become a dominant literary form over the last thirty years is clear. Margaret Atwood (Grace Marks), Michael Cunningham (Virginia Woolf), J. M. Coetzee (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Gabri
The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel
The biographical novel has supplanted the classical historical novel. What has caused this is a shift in our contemporary theories of consciousness, which radically impact the way we understand and do history. Traditional historical novelists have a positivist approach to history, so they picture the external factors that objectively shape and determine consciousness and thereby make historical collisions possible. Biographical novelists believe …
Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction
This brief survey of criticism about biofiction clarifies how scholars have struggled to define the aesthetic form in relation to the historical novel and to biography. By citing some prominent authors of biofiction, it provides a preliminary framework for and definition of biofiction as an introduction to this cluster, which consists of process pieces and scholarly essays about biofiction
Conceptualizing Christianity and Christian Nazis After the Nuremberg Trials
In the 2008 study The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel does a Wrstrate analysis of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish InXuence on German Church Life, the Nazi-era think tank of the German Christian movement, which had a cozy relationship with the theology faculty at the University of Jena. Striking is the degree to which the institute’s Christian theology aligned with the Nazis’ political objectives, as Heschel so skillfully demon…
"Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding's "America
Research Article| November 01 2012 Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding’s "America" Michael Lackey Michael Lackey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (3): 217–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Lackey; Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saun…
Zora Neale Hurston's Herod the Great: A Study of the Theological Origins of Modernist Anti-Semitism
Zora Neale Hurston's Herod the Great:A Study of the Theological Origins of Modernist Anti-Semitism Michael Lackey (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Zora Neale Hurston, April 1935. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. [End Page 100] We have, at long last, Deborah G. Plant to thank for doing an extensive analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished manuscript, Herod the Great, a novel that would have depicted the life and times of a man w…
The Sacred Imagined Nation: Challenging the Modernist Secularization Hypothesis
Moses, Man of Oppression: A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy
Moses, Man of Oppression:A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy Michael Lackey (bio) If Allen Dwight Callahan, author of The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible, is to be believed, African Americans monolithically revere Moses as a "venerable ideal of African American leadership" (98), since he provided oppressed people with the perfect model for setting the captives free. So instrumental was the figure of Mo…
Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction
This brief survey of criticism about biofiction clarifies how scholars have struggled to define the aesthetic form in relation to the historical novel and to biography. By citing some prominent authors of biofiction, it provides a preliminary framework for and definition of biofiction as an introduction to this cluster, which consists of process pieces and scholarly essays about biofiction
The Futures of Biofiction Studies
That biofiction has become a dominant literary form over the last thirty years is clear. Margaret Atwood (Grace Marks), Michael Cunningham (Virginia Woolf), J. M. Coetzee (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Gabri
The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel
The biographical novel has supplanted the classical historical novel. What has caused this is a shift in our contemporary theories of consciousness, which radically impact the way we understand and do history. Traditional historical novelists have a positivist approach to history, so they picture the external factors that objectively shape and determine consciousness and thereby make historical collisions possible. Biographical novelists believe …
Conceptualizing Christianity and Christian Nazis After the Nuremberg Trials
In the 2008 study The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel does a Wrstrate analysis of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish InXuence on German Church Life, the Nazi-era think tank of the German Christian movement, which had a cozy relationship with the theology faculty at the University of Jena. Striking is the degree to which the institute’s Christian theology aligned with the Nazis’ political objectives, as Heschel so skillfully demon…
Unresolving Characters in Biofiction: A Conversation with Colm Tóibín
Additional informationFundingI would like to thank the University of Minnesota for making the funding for this project possible
Beyond Postmodern Blurring: Epistemic Precision in Writing about a Life
Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous claim that truth is a conceptual illusion that language-users have forgotten to see as provisional and evolving was one of the main ideas informing the major postmodern
The Ethical Benefits and Challenges of Biofiction for Children
I don't think that biofiction for kids is very ethical. For most kids, it would be hard to tell if it is fiction or nonfiction. If they can't tell that it is fiction or nonfiction, they might have
"Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding's "America
Research Article| November 01 2012 Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding’s "America" Michael Lackey Michael Lackey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (3): 217–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Lackey; Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saun…
Frantz Fanon on the Theology of Colonization
Frantz Fanon on the Theology of Colonization Michael Lackey Throughout The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon makes a number of uncharitable references to religion, suggesting that the church establishes a sophisticated system of political oppression within the colonized land, that colonization and evangelization work hand in hand, and that the colonizer's God creates humans as inferior or superior. These barbed comments are sprinkled throughout…
DE Luca, Vincent Arthur. Words of Eternity: Blake and the Poetics of the Sublime
"Killing God, Liberating the "Subject: Nietzsche and Post-God Freedom
Examinant la logique de Nietzsche selon laquelle seule la mort de Dieu permet la venue d'un homme nouveau debarasse de son moi construit au profit d'un moi en devenir, l'A. se propose de montrer comment le philosophe allemand tente d'eliminer Dieu et le sujet traditionnel a travers son analyse de la croyance en la grammaire (in «Le crepuscule des idoles»). Opposant la foi et la liberte dans le domaine du langage, et denoncant le mensonge au fonde…
Frantz Fanon on the Theology of Colonization
Frantz Fanon on the Theology of Colonization Michael Lackey Throughout The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon makes a number of uncharitable references to religion, suggesting that the church establishes a sophisticated system of political oppression within the colonized land, that colonization and evangelization work hand in hand, and that the colonizer's God creates humans as inferior or superior. These barbed comments are sprinkled throughout…
The Sacred Imagined Nation: Challenging the Modernist Secularization Hypothesis
Moses, Man of Oppression: A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy
Moses, Man of Oppression:A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy Michael Lackey (bio) If Allen Dwight Callahan, author of The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible, is to be believed, African Americans monolithically revere Moses as a "venerable ideal of African American leadership" (98), since he provided oppressed people with the perfect model for setting the captives free. So instrumental was the figure of Mo…
Zora Neale Hurston's Herod the Great: A Study of the Theological Origins of Modernist Anti-Semitism
Zora Neale Hurston's Herod the Great:A Study of the Theological Origins of Modernist Anti-Semitism Michael Lackey (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Zora Neale Hurston, April 1935. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. [End Page 100] We have, at long last, Deborah G. Plant to thank for doing an extensive analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished manuscript, Herod the Great, a novel that would have depicted the life and times of a man w…
"Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding's "America
Research Article| November 01 2012 Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saunders Redding’s "America" Michael Lackey Michael Lackey Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (3): 217–243. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Lackey; Redeeming the Post-Metaphysical Promise of J. Saun…
Conceptualizing Christianity and Christian Nazis After the Nuremberg Trials
In the 2008 study The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel does a Wrstrate analysis of the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish InXuence on German Church Life, the Nazi-era think tank of the German Christian movement, which had a cozy relationship with the theology faculty at the University of Jena. Striking is the degree to which the institute’s Christian theology aligned with the Nazis’ political objectives, as Heschel so skillfully demon…
The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel
The biographical novel has supplanted the classical historical novel. What has caused this is a shift in our contemporary theories of consciousness, which radically impact the way we understand and do history. Traditional historical novelists have a positivist approach to history, so they picture the external factors that objectively shape and determine consciousness and thereby make historical collisions possible. Biographical novelists believe …
Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction
This brief survey of criticism about biofiction clarifies how scholars have struggled to define the aesthetic form in relation to the historical novel and to biography. By citing some prominent authors of biofiction, it provides a preliminary framework for and definition of biofiction as an introduction to this cluster, which consists of process pieces and scholarly essays about biofiction
The Futures of Biofiction Studies
That biofiction has become a dominant literary form over the last thirty years is clear. Margaret Atwood (Grace Marks), Michael Cunningham (Virginia Woolf), J. M. Coetzee (Fyodor Dostoevsky), Gabri
Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe
In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations enable readers to explore how these issues are negotiated in contemporary world literature
The Ethical Benefits and Challenges of Biofiction for Children
I don't think that biofiction for kids is very ethical. For most kids, it would be hard to tell if it is fiction or nonfiction. If they can't tell that it is fiction or nonfiction, they might have
Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction
Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. What has not yet been scholarly acknowledged or documented is that the Irish played a crucial role in the origins, evolution, rise, and now dominance of biofiction. Michael Lackey first examines the groundbreaking biofictions that Oscar Wilde and George Moore authored in the late 19th and early …
Biofiction’s Uncanny Impact on Undergraduate Students and Research
In the college classroom, biofiction has a powerful impact on students, oftentimes motivating them to go above and beyond the assignment. Given its uncanny power, Michael Lackey wondered if students could make significant contributions to biofiction studies by interviewing authors of specific novels. As he discovered, the answer is yes. In this introduction, he describes how he came upon the idea of mentoring undergraduates in the art of intervie…
Beyond Postmodern Blurring: Epistemic Precision in Writing about a Life
Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous claim that truth is a conceptual illusion that language-users have forgotten to see as provisional and evolving was one of the main ideas informing the major postmodern
Biofiction as Cultural Intervention: The Tragic Failure of Lion Feuchtwanger’s Jud Süß
As a literary form, biofiction started to dominate in the 1990s, and over the last ten years, biofiction studies has surged dramatically. While scholars acknowledge that there were some important biofictions in the nineteenth century, the form first started to catch fire in the early twentieth century, especially among German writers who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Klaus Mann, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Broch, Fra…
The Biographical Novelist as an Agent of Pain: A Conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
Voicing Female Power through Biofiction: A Conversation with Mary Sharratt
German Biofiction from Nietzsche to the Present
Unresolving Characters in Biofiction: A Conversation with Colm Tóibín
Additional informationFundingI would like to thank the University of Minnesota for making the funding for this project possible
The Primacy of Perception in Biofiction: A Conversation with Charles Johnson
The Dynamics of Social Injustice in Biofiction: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Coalition Building through Biofiction: A Conversation with Jewell Parker Rhodes
African American Biofiction: An Introduction
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