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Shavian Self-Fashioning: Authorized Biography and Shaw's Superman

George Bernard Shaw exercised an above-average level of authorial control, which even extended to his relationship with his biographers. Shaw crafts a persona, with the help of his "authorized" biographer Archibald Henderson, which displays a process of evolutionary development and progress along the lines of the Shavian philosophy of the Life Force and the Superman. In essence, Shaw is casting himself as a prototype for the Superman through the autobiographical manipulation of his biographers and aesthetic modes of self-fashioning.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BGMYU2/oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-3183
Date07 July 2010
CreatorsKirksey, Cort H.
PublisherBYU ScholarsArchive
Source SetsBrigham Young University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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