Touching the World : : Reference in Autobiography / / Paul John Eakin.
Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attent...
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Eakin, Paul John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Touching the World : Reference in Autobiography / Paul John Eakin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1992] ©1992 1 online resource (268 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Referential Aesthetic of Autobiography -- CHAPTER TWO. Henry James's "Obscure Hurt": Can Autobiography Serve Biography? -- CHAPTER THREE. Self and Culture in Autobiography: Models of Identity and the Limits of Language -- CHAPTER FOUR. Living in History -- CHAPTER FIVE. Autobiography and the Structures of Experience -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here he shows that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. In subsequent chapters he explores some of the major contexts of reference in autobiography: the biographical, the social and cultural, the historical, and finally, underlying all the rest, the somatic and temporal dimensions of the lived experience of identity. In his discussion of contemporary theories of the self, Eakin draws especially on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American prose literature History and criticism. Authors, American Biography History and criticism. Authors, French Biography History and criticism. Autobiography. French prose literature History and criticism. Reference (Philosophy). LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691068206 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820641 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400820641 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400820641.jpg |
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