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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785676503321

Autore

Anderson Linda R. <1950-, >

Titolo

Autobiography / / Linda Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84553-4

1-136-84554-2

1-283-04152-9

9786613041524

0-203-83375-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

The new critical idiom

Disciplina

809/.93592

Soggetti

Autobiography

Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 HISTORIANS OF THE SELF; 2 SUBJECTIVITY, REPRESENTATION AND NARRATIVE; 3 OTHER SUBJECTS; 4 NARRATIVE; 5 PRACTISING AUTOBIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of 'autobiography'?The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include:developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to memoirs and diaries uses of the genre in their historical and cultural contexts major autobiographical writers including St Augustine, Bunyan, Boswell, Rousseau and Wordsworth, alongsi