Fictions in Autobiography : : Studies in the Art of Self-Invention / / Paul John Eakin.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. Fiction in Autobiography: Ask Mary McCarthy No Questions
- CHAPTER TWO. Henry James and the Autobiographical Act
- CHAPTER THREE. Jean-Paul Sartre: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Book
- CHAPTER FOUR. Self-Invention in Autobiography: The Moment of Language
- INDEX
- Backmatter