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Autore: | Couser G. Thomas |
Titolo: | Altered egos [[electronic resource] ] : authority in American autobiography / / G. Thomas Couser |
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 | |
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.: | 9910784989103321 |
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