R1. Biography, Biofiction and Ethics: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group скачать в хорошем качестве

R1. Biography, Biofiction and Ethics: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

Chairs: Todd Avery and Laura Cernat Chat Moderator: Adam Nemmers Moderators: Todd Avery (University of Massachusetts Lowell, US) and Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) E.J. (Emma) Barnes (Novelist, UK), Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Mark Hussey (Pace University, U.S.), Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota Morris, U.S.), Monica Latham (Université de Lorraine, France), Bethany Layne (De Montfort University, England, UK), Susan Sellers (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK) The interest of Bloomsbury group members in Life-Writing experiments cannot be overstated, nor can the eccentricity of their own lives. It is no wonder, then, that the flourishing contemporary genre of biofiction, which started gaining currency in the 1930s and owes some of its insights to the momentum created by Bloomsbury experiments, celebrates the figures of the Bloomsbury group, and particularly Virginia Woolf, by reincarnating them as fictional characters. In this roundtable, we will address the ethics of writing and reading Bloomsbury-inspired biofiction as well as biography, with a focus on the questions of writerly and readerly responsibility, the extent of the freedom to alter details, the (un)importance of preserving the original personality traits of a historical figure, the uses and abuses of documentation, and the legitimacy of drawing on Woolf’s symbolic capital.