Autobiography : essays theoretical and critical /
Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1980]
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| ISBN: | 9781400856312 1400856310 |
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Table of Contents:
- Autobiography and the cultural moment: A thematic, historical and bibliographical introduction / James Olney
- Conditions and limits of autobiography / George Gusdorf
- Full of life now / Barrett J. Mandel
- The Style of autobiography / Jean Starobinski
- Some principles of autobiography / William L. Howarth
- Confessions and autobiography / Stephen Spender
- Recovering literature's lost ground through autobiography / James M. Cox
- Autobiography and the making of America / Robert F. Sayre
- Black autobiography: Life as the death weapon / Roger Rosenblatt
- Malcolm X and the limits of autobiography / Paul John Eakin
- Michel Leiris: Mazemaker / Germaine Brée
- The Other voice: Autobiographies of women writers / Mary G. Mason
- Some versions of memory/ Some versions of bios: The ontology of autobiography / James Olney
- The Veto of the imagination: A theory of autobiography / Louis A. Renza
- Eye for I: Making and unmaking autobiography in film / Elizabeth W. Bruss
- Fictions of the self: The end of autobiography / Michael Sprinker.