Authorial Authority
Johnson's Life of Savage and Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jamie Bush (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-40 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0296 |
| OpenAlex | W2040947128 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Authorial biographies-biographies written by authors-as exemplified by Johnson's Life of Savage and Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol , constitute a distinctive subgenre of biography, remarkable for, among other features, a relative unconcern with facts, ideological independence, antipanegyrical orientation, and a tendency toward self-assertion and self-investment. This article compares the strategies by which Johnson and Nabokov constitute themselves as authors while operating within the biographical form
Art · Literature · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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