Altered egos [[electronic resource] ] : authority in American autobiography / / G. Thomas Couser

• Autore: Couser G. Thomas
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 810/.9/492; 8109492
• Soggetto topico: Autobiography; Authority in literature; American prose literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes ; Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is concerned with the ""authority"" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Altered egos
• ISBN: 1-280-52390-5; 0-19-534523-1; 1-4294-0101-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451344803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II