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Author: Alexandre David
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Languages : fr
Pages : 2

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Author: John Sturrock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521131636
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The urge to autobiography reveals itself every day, in the stories we tell about ourselves. Literary autobiography is the most highly developed form of this universal activity of self-promotion, a kind of writing practised in the west over many centuries. In this major study of the western tradition, John Sturrock analyses the means by which more than twenty of the greatest literary autobiographers have gone about their task. The book concentrates on the productive tension between the writer's will to singularity and the autobiographical act itself, which restores by conventional and rhetorical means the harmony between the writer and a community of readers. By attending closely and sceptically to the truth-claims made by autobiographers from Augustine through Rousseau and Darwin to Sartre and Michel Leiris, Sturrock establishes some of the deep, hidden continuities of autobiographical writing, and shows how artful and self-conscious this supposedly most sincere of literary genres can be.

Author: Henriette Lucie marquise de La Tour du Pin
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Michael Sheringham
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This is the first full-scale study of French autobiography. Whereas earlier critics have engaged primarily in theoretical discussion of the genre, or in analyses of individual works or authors, Michael Sheringham identifies sixteen key autobiographical texts and situates them in the context ofan evolving set of challenges and problems.Informed by a sophisticated awareness of recent theoretical debates, Sheringham conceives autobiography as a distinctively open form of writing, perpetually engaged with different forms of `otherness'. Manifestations of the Other in the autobiographical process - from the reader, who incarnatesother people, to ideology, against which individual truth must be pitted, to the potential otherness of memory itself - are traced through a scrutiny of the `devices and desires' at work in a range of texts from Rousseau's Confessions, to Stendhal's Vie de Henry Brulard and Sartre's Les Mots. Otherwriters examined include Chateaubriand, Gide, Green, Leiris, Leduc, Gorz, Barthes, Perec, and Sarraute.French Autobiography: Devices and Desires represents both the first attempt to assemble a canon in one volume and a strikingly original contribution to the theory of autobiography.

Author: William C. Spengemann
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ISBN: 9780300028867
Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Estelle C. Jelinek
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Category : Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: Richard N. Coe
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Author: Sidonie Smith
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ISBN: 9780253204431
Category : Autobiografía - Mujeres como autoras
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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