Altered Egos : Authority in American Autobiography.
This work explores the ""authority"" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, be...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| ISBN: | 9780195345230 0195345231 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This work explores the ""authority"" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparentcongruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, or referring to a pre-existing self, Couser examines the ways in which theauthority of page. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
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