Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780719055300
Publisert
1998-11-19
Utgiver
Manchester University Press
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
322
Forfatter
Biografisk notat
Laura Marcus is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London
In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
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This work explores the significance of the genre of autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private - debates now figured in feminist theory.
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Introduction
1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical discourses
2. Auto/biography: between literature and science
3. Bringing the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new biography'
4. Autobiography and historical consciousness
5. Saving the subject
6. The law of genre
7. Auto/biographical spaces
Bibliography
Index
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In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780719055300
Publisert
1998-11-19
Utgiver
Manchester University Press
Vekt
422 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
322
Forfatter