This article discusses the complexity of arts-based educational research and arts-based autoethnography and presents a concrete example of an installation tableau that investigates the regulation o...

The Educational Researcher as Artist Working Within

1. Bio-diversity: metabiographical method 2. Styling the self: making missionary travels 3. Death: lamenting Livingstone 4. Empire: imperial afterlives 5. Nation: Scotland's son 6. Fiction: laughing at Livingstone? 7. Revisionism: sins, psyche, sex Index

Livingstone's 'lives': A metabiography of a Victorian icon

Preface 1. Introduction: 'slippery people' 2. Sons, daughters and servants 3. Wives and servants 4. Friends and servants 5. Tragic dependencies in King Lear 6. Freedom, service and slavery in Macbeth 7. Epilogue: some reflections on the porter Notes Bibliography Index.

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Service and dependency in Shakespeare's plays

The Freudian Orient: Early Psychoanalysis, Anti-Semitic Challenge, and the Vicissitudes of Orientalist Discourse

Since modernism, narrative omniscience has been much attacked, yet little studied and understood. This in inverse ratio to the central role it actually plays in narrative discourse and metadiscourse alike: the telling, reading, grouping, evolving, conceptualizing of stories, invented (e.g., novelistic) or inspired (biblical, Homeric). Here I review the various old-new critical thrusts against epistemic superprivilege (outright denials, partisan judgments, attempted confinements, impairments, replacements, as well as genuine misunderstandings) arisen since my constructive theory of omniscience appeared, often in response to it. Those neomodernist challenges meet, multiply, and frequently run to extremes in Jonathan Culler’s (2004) antitheistic critique, which accordingly presents an overall mirrorimage to how and where and why omniscient narrative is (re)constructed. Nor is this key question of epistemic privilege vs. disprivilege alone at stake. The argument shows afresh its bearings on larger issues yet, especially narrative’s open-ended art of relations. Thus the relations between axes of perspective, between perspective and plot, between power and performance, between mimetic and artistic sense-making, between factual and fictional storytelling. Equally involved, at a higher level still, are the relations between part and whole, form and force or function, typology and teleology, theory and history, (meta)discourse and ideology, the realities of literature and the desires of the literati. Throughout, the choice ultimately lies between freezing, even nullifying those relations via package deals and allowing them free play in the spirit of the Proteus Principle. Poetics Today 28:4 (Winter 2007) DOI 10.1215/03335372-2007-012 © 2008 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 684 Poetics Today 28:4 The Lord knows and Israel shall know.

Omniscience in Narrative Construction: Old Challenges and New

Popular though biography is, it has as yet received very little critical attention. What nearly all biographies offer is an understanding of their subjects and an explanation of their behaviour. In this book David Ellis, author of the acclaimed third volume of the Cambridge biography of D H Lawrence, meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' lives by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body or illness. Packed with examples and written in a lively, engrossing style, the aim of the book is to uncover the principles which biographers adopt in their efforts to make sense of others' lives whilst at the same time ensuring that their own narratives remain coherent. In exploring the methods of literary biographers and the ways in which they interpret the material they accumulate - from Dr Johnson to Jean-Paul Sartre - David Ellis is able to make challenging and highly valuable comments on biography in general. Although he chiefly draws on recent lives of writers such as Dickens, Henry James, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Graham Greene, George Orwell, W B Yeats and Hemingway, Professor Ellis also considers the biographies of such compelling, non-literary figures as Mozart, Picasso and Cezanne. With their focus on the understanding of other people as the main feature of biography, the informed and often humorous discussions in this book provide the ideal context for appreciating this fascinating literary form.

Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding

Death and Return of the Author

Chronology Maps Part I. Faring Forth: 1. February-April 1922 Ceylon 2. April-August 1922 Australia 3. August-December 1922 New Mexico 4. December 1922-March 1923 Christmas at Del Monte 5. March-July 1923 Old Mexico 6. July-November 1923 New York, Los Angeles, Guadalajara Part II. The Second Visit to America: 7. November 1923-March 1924 European interlude 8. March-October 1924 Back to New Mexico 9. October 1924-February 1925 Oaxaca and The Plumed Serpent 10. November 1924-February 1925 Brett is banished 11. February-September 1925 The return to the ranch Part III. Europe Once More: 12. September 1925-April 1926 Spotorno 13. April-October 1926 Florence and England 14. October 1926-March 1927 Two Lady Chatterleys 15. March-August 1927 Change of life 16. August 1927-January 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover 17. January-June 1928 Last days at the Villa Mirenda Part IV. The Marvel of Being Alive: 18. June-November 1928 The search for health 19. November 1928-March 1929 Bandol 20. March-July 1929 Old haunts and new 21. July 1929-January 1930 Battling on 22. January-2 March 1930 Vence Appendix 1. The writing life, 1922-30: prose Appendix 2. The writing life, 1922-30: poetry.

D.H. Lawrence, dying game, 1922-1930

This is a polemical attack on how recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How is it that biographies of Shakespeare can continue to appear when so little is known about him, and what is known has been in the public domain for so long? Why is it that a majority of the biographies published in the last decade have been written by distinguished Shakespeareans who ought to know better? This book attempts to solve this puzzle by examining the methods the biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge. At the same time, by exploring efforts to write a life of Shakespeare along traditional lines, it asks what kind of beast biography really is and how it can ethically be approached. From this book, the reader can learn all that is directly known about Shakespeare. It exposes the lie of the Shakespeare biography industry where books marketed as biographies are nothing of the kind. It questions how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what an ethical expectation of a biography could be.

David Ellis

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Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding

Death and Return of the Author

D.H. Lawrence, dying game, 1922-1930

The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies

Freud's Dora