LEADER 04334nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910828642003321 005 20230421041332.0 010 $a1-282-50568-8 010 $a9786612505683 010 $a1-4008-2064-2 010 $a1-4008-1143-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820641 035 $a(CKB)111056486505752 035 $a(EBL)485788 035 $a(OCoLC)700682085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260381 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260381 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10193160 035 $a(PQKB)11102989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485788 035 $a(OCoLC)51453397 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35924 035 $a(DE-B1597)446037 035 $a(OCoLC)979623430 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485788 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035932 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250568 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505752 100 $a19910917d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTouching the world $ereference in autobiography /$fPaul John Eakin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1992 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-06820-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Referential Aesthetic of Autobiography --$tCHAPTER TWO. Henry James's "Obscure Hurt": Can Autobiography Serve Biography? --$tCHAPTER THREE. Self and Culture in Autobiography: Models of Identity and the Limits of Language --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Living in History --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Autobiography and the Structures of Experience --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aPaul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here he shows that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. In subsequent chapters he explores some of the major contexts of reference in autobiography: the biographical, the social and cultural, the historical, and finally, underlying all the rest, the somatic and temporal dimensions of the lived experience of identity. In his discussion of contemporary theories of the self, Eakin draws especially on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology. 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, French$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aReference (Philosophy) 606 $aAutobiography 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, French$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aReference (Philosophy) 615 0$aAutobiography. 676 $a818/.50809 700 $aEakin$b Paul John$0251370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828642003321 996 $aTouching the world$93958850 997 $aUNINA