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Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography
Av Various
2015
25699 kr
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Reissuing works originally published between 1960 and 1995, this varied set offers an outstanding collection of scholarship. It includes topics that touch on psychology, feminist criticism, philosophy and literary history as well as examinations of autobiography as genre.
V. S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography
Av Judith Levy
Inbunden, 2015
2445 kr
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Originally published in 1995. V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian of Indian descent living in the West, has written in many forms. Through an analysis of five works by Naipaul written in different modes and periods of his life, this study posits a relationship between a cultural condition and a choice of …
Autobiography and Imagination
Studies in Self-scrutiny
Av John Pilling
Inbunden, 2015
2445 kr
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Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his …
Design and Truth in Autobiography
Av Roy Pascal
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
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Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that …
Rewriting the Self
History, Memory, Narrative
Av Mark Freeman
Inbunden, 2015
2433 kr
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Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and …
Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their …
Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History
Inbunden, 2015
2445 kr
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Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid’s fable takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the themes but looks at the creation of narrative strategies to explain Narcissus’ experience. The story has always been understood as literally impossible but invites …
Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality–a healing act that involves the writer in a …
Autobiography and Questions of Gender
Inbunden, 2015
2879 kr
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Originally published in 1991. Addressing the ways in which the ideology of gender and its social construction determine autobiographical self-representations, the essays here consider several women’s works in the light of the social and historical conditions which enabled their production. Some …
British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century
Av Paul Delany
Inbunden, 2015
2658 kr
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Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc. …
Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography
Häftad, 2017
593 kr
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Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality–a healing act that involves the writer in a …
Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida
Häftad, 2017
793 kr
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Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their …
Autobiography and Imagination
Studies in Self-scrutiny
Av John Pilling
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his …
Autobiography and Questions of Gender
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Originally published in 1991. Addressing the ways in which the ideology of gender and its social construction determine autobiographical self-representations, the essays here consider several women’s works in the light of the social and historical conditions which enabled their production. Some …
British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century
Av Paul Delany
Häftad, 2017
732 kr
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Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc. …
Design and Truth in Autobiography
Av Roy Pascal
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that …
Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid’s fable takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the themes but looks at the creation of narrative strategies to explain Narcissus’ experience. The story has always been understood as literally impossible but invites …
Rewriting the Self
History, Memory, Narrative
Av Mark Freeman
Häftad, 2017
793 kr
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Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and …
V. S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography
Av Judith Levy
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Originally published in 1995. V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian of Indian descent living in the West, has written in many forms. Through an analysis of five works by Naipaul written in different modes and periods of his life, this study posits a relationship between a cultural condition and a choice of …
