| Abstrakt: |
Why do memoirists, in order to find themselves, find it necessary to rewrite their favorite authors? This article explores this question by analyzing D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer and tracing Dyer’s conflicted attitude to memoir and rewriting back to Lawrence, specifically his Study of Thomas Hardy. If by now the book market is awash in antibiographical rewrites, that is because rewriting first asserted itself as a contrarian impulse, a radically different way of thinking about the canon that has become second nature. |
