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Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744–2000 by Ian H. Magedera (review)

Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet:... BOOK REVIEWS se young kim is a PhD candidate of Film Studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. He is currently working on his dissertation, entitled "Crisis in Neoliberal Asia: Violence in Contemporary Korean and Japanese Cinema." The project examines violent cinema produced in South Korea and Japan between 1997 and 2008 in relation to the collapse of the bubble economy in Japan and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744­2000. By Ian H. Magedera. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2014. 346 pp. Paper, $104. Reviewed by Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland As the title suggests, Ian H. Magedera's new study covers about two-and-ahalf centuries, as well as a wide variety of figures who have been the subjects of biography and/or bio-fiction. This broad coverage is one of the most appealing features of the book--but it also, I believe, entails some shortcomings. Magedera is concerned to compare the Anglophone and French traditions of biography. He does value biographies that seek to establish the facts about their subjects' lives--especially when these have been occluded http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Studies Penn State University Press

Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744–2000 by Ian H. Magedera (review)

Comparative Literature Studies , Volume 53 (1) – Mar 23, 2016
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BOOK REVIEWS se young kim is a PhD candidate of Film Studies in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. He is currently working on his dissertation, entitled "Crisis in Neoliberal Asia: Violence in Contemporary Korean and Japanese Cinema." The project examines violent cinema produced in South Korea and Japan between 1997 and 2008 in relation to the collapse of the bubble economy in Japan and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Outsider Biographies: Savage, de Sade, Wainewright, Ned Kelly, Billy the Kid, Rimbaud, Genet: Base Crime and High Art in Biography and Bio-Fiction, 1744­2000. By Ian H. Magedera. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2014. 346 pp. Paper, $104. Reviewed by Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland As the title suggests, Ian H. Magedera's new study covers about two-and-ahalf centuries, as well as a wide variety of figures who have been the subjects of biography and/or bio-fiction. This broad coverage is one of the most appealing features of the book--but it also, I believe, entails some shortcomings. Magedera is concerned to compare the Anglophone and French traditions of biography. He does value biographies that seek to establish the facts about their subjects' lives--especially when these have been occluded

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