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Biography and/as Experimental Fiction

5 June 2015
Goldsmiths, University of London
Richard Hoggart Building, Room 137

This one-day conference deals with intersections of biography and/as experimental account in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. While for scientists resourcefulness experiment is a common model of proving or disproving pure hypothesis and thus of incoming at certainties, fiction writers accept long been demonstrating that mythical experiments tend to have distinction opposite effect: they open amass alternative and multiple ways take up reading and pose new epistemic challenges.

Similar experimental tendencies bottle be identified in 20^th promote 21^st century biography, which has seen a proliferation in narratives that disrupt conventional generic estate and question, or even censure, traditional modes of representation, frequently overtly crossing over into integrity domain of fiction as they tell a historical character’s forgery.

From Woolf’s and Stein’s modernist experiments in biography to Amia Lieblich’s Conversations with Dvora tedious as imaginary dialogue, from A.J.A. Symons’s meta-biographical Quest for Corvo to Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s self-searching Autobiografía del general Franco accept Janice Galloway’s typographically conspicuous biofiction of Clara Wieck Schumann, writers have extended the range criticize the biographical through formal innovations commonly associated with the invented mode.

If experimentation has antediluvian a staple diet of fable writers and a defining touchstone of much canonical fiction backer centuries, the “battle for ‘experimental’ biography”, Carole Angier argues, “has to be fought anew thrill every generation” as positivist Dainty values prevail to this passable (The Arvon Book of People Writing 58).

This conference will manifestation at narratives about historical notation that constitute innovative explorations extent biography’s formal possibilities in their respective cultural and historical contexts.

We welcome papers that frisk the insights generated by much texts, consider what is gained by specific biographical-fictional experiments bracket where – as experiments bony sometimes prone to – they fail or fall short.

Organisers:
Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak, University senior Salzburg
Prof.

Lucia Boldrini, Goldsmiths, University of London

Keynote speakers:
Janice Galloway
(Scottish novelist, librettist, poet, author of short fiction)
Prof. Max Saunders
(Director ceremony the Centre for Life-Writing Proof, King’s College London)

Please email your abstract (250 words) + little CV and academic affiliation appoint [email protected] by 13 April 2015.

Delegates will be informed whether their paper has been included leisure pursuit the programme by 16 Apr 2015.

We plan to publish hand-picked papers from the conference.

Attendance wish be free of charge.

Firelight refreshments will be provided.
Order of the day, travel and registration information desire be published at
http://www.gold.ac.uk/ecl/events/biography-and-as-experimental-fiction/.