| Description |
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Autobiography and the cultural moment : a thematic, historical and bibliographical introduction / James Olney -- Conditions and limits of autobiography / George Gusdorf -- Full of life now / Barrett J. Mandel -- Style of autobiography / Jean Starobinski -- Some principles of autobiography / William L. Howarth -- Confessions and autobiography / Stephen Spender -- Recovering literature's lost ground through autobiography / James M. Cox -- Autobiography and the making of America / Robert F. Sayre -- Black autobiography : life as the death weapon / Roger Rosenblatt -- Malcolm X and the limits of autobiography / Paul John Eakin -- Michel Leiris : mazemaker / Germaine Bree -- Other voice : autobiographies of women writers / Mary G. Mason -- Some versions of memory / Some versions of bios : the ontology of autobiography / James Olney -- Veto of the imagination : a theory of autobiography / Louis A. Renza -- Eye for I : making and unmaking autobiography in film / Elizabeth W. Bruss -- Fictions of the self : the end of autobiography / Michael Sprinker |
| Analysis |
Autobiography Readings |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [343]-352 |
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Includes index |
| Performer |
ISBN 0-691-10080-2 Pbk : £5.40 |
| Subject |
Autobiographical memory.
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography as Topic.
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| Author |
Olney, James.
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| LC no. |
79017556 |
| ISBN |
0691064121 |
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0691100802 (paperback) |
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