Metaphors of Self : : The Meaning of Autobiography / / James Olney.
James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes it live.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1972 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One : A Theory of Autobiography “my metaphysics . . . my physics”
- Two: Montaigne “a book consubstantial with its author”
- Three: Jung “my personal myth”
- Four: Autobiography Simplex “et nous sommes tous du vulgaire”
- Five: Four Quartets “the pattern more complicated”
- Six: Synthesis “the correlative of Being”
- Index