Fictions in Autobiography : Studies in the Art of Self-Invention.

Fictions in Autobiography : Studies in the Art of Self-Invention.

Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the ce...

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Main Author: Eakin, Paul John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Sartre, Jean-Paul, > 1905-1980.
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Invention (Rhetoric) > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, French > 20th century > Biography.
Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Self in literature.
Autobiographies as Topic.
autobiography (genre)
Biography
Biographies.
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