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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1992] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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