Speculative biography : experiments, opportunities and provocations /: experiments, opportunities and provocations. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Donna Lee Brien, Kiera Lindsey.
• Editors: Brien, Donna Lee, 1959-; Lindsey, Kiera
• Contents: Part 1. Contexts and Methods Chapter 1: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations in Speculative Biography: Opening and Overview Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey Chapter 2: A New Contextualisation of ‘"The Facts Formed a Line of Buoys in the Sea of My Own Imagination": History, Fiction and Speculative Biography’" Donna Lee Brien Chapter 3: The Speculative Method: Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory Kiera Lindsey Part 2. Experiments Chapter 4: On the Threshold: Conceptual Speculation Ffion Murphy with Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey Chapter 5: Show Your Workings: Towards A Creative Historical Toolkit William G. Pooley Chapter 6: Scrying the Lost Wildflowers of ‘Wee Witchee Wee’ Kiera Lindsey Chapter 7: Writing to Save Sun Bears: Speculating about Non-Human Characters within Biography Sarah Pye with Paul Williams Chapter 8: Choreographing George Balanchine: The Life as Ballet Program Jessica Wilkinson Part 3. Opportunities Chapter 9: Speculating about a Spy: Working with ‘Suspicious Sources’ in Deciphering the Life of Ralph Harry Laura Thompson Chapter 10: Based on the Evidence and My Experience: The Role of Speculative Biography in a Decolonised Reimagining of the Bungalow, Alice Springs 1914–1929 Linda Wells Chapter 11: Bespoke Biography: Writing Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life Louise Martin-Chew Chapter 12: Using Informed Imagination When Writing About Controversial Characters: The Case of Dr Felix Kersten and Himmler Anne M. Carson Part 4. Provocations Chapter 13: Speculative Historical Viability: A Grave Undertaking? Paul Sandringham Chapter 14: Challenges and Limitations of Speculation in True Crime Biography: A Lawyer’s Lens Rachel Spencer Chapter 15: Biographical ‘Facts’ and Speculative Forms: Writing John and Rose Morley Through New Eyes Kevin A. Morrison Chapter 16: The Curious Case of Cornelius Cardew: An Exercise in Reflective Speculation Harriet Cunningham Chapter 17: Why Not Tell? : Eddie Samuels, the Authentic Self and the Novel as Speculative Auto biography James Worner Chapter 18: Speculative Biography as Dewdrop: Writing Women’s Lives Deborah Jordan
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.06692; Biography as a literary form; Biography -- Authorship
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000454734; 9781000454666; 9781003054528
• Related ISBNs: 9780367515829
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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