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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living and only eventually, |
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| Item Description: | Cover; Contents. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400854790 1400854792 0691631530 9780691631530 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
