G. Thomas Couser

Memoir

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compact, pithy guide to the most popular form of life-writing, Memoir: An Introduction provides a primer to the ubiquitous literary form and its many subgenres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9780199826926
• ISBN-10: 0199826927
• Artikelnr.: 36933400

Autorenporträt

G. Thomas Couser is Professor of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode; Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography; Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing; Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing; and Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Memoir Is, and What Memoir Isn't
2. Memoir and Genre
3. Memoir's Forms
4. Memoir's Ethics
5. Memoir's American Roots
6. Contemporary American Memoir
7. The Work of Memoir
Works Cited
Index