Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait

Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait PDF Author: Michel Beaujour
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814711927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Book Description
Investigates the literary self-portrait genre. From St Augustine to Montaigne, and from Nietzsche to Barthes, individual self-portraits are analyzed along with the cultural matrix from which self-portrayal derives its non-narrative structure, and many of its recurrent topics.