The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography

Herausgeber: Dibattista, Maria; Wittman, Emily

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Sixteen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives that are loosely collected under the rubric of autobiography.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781107609181
• ISBN-10: 1107609186
• Artikelnr.: 40323559

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Maria DiBattista and Emily O. Wittman
Part I. Foundations: 1. Augustine Adam Becker
2. Medieval European autobiography John Fleming
3. Montaigne Lawrence Kriztman
4. Rousseau Eli Friedlander
Part II. Consolidations: 5. Romantic autobiography Frances Wilson
6. Victorian autobiography Deborah Nord
7. American autobiography Robert Sayre
Part III. Deflections: 8. Kierkegaard/Nietzsche Alistair Hannay
9. Pessoa Alfred MacAdam
10. Gide/Genet Jean-Michel Rabaté
Part IV. Prisms: 11. Nabokov Leland de la Durante
12. African American autobiography Trudier Harris
13. Holocaust memoirs Michael Bernard-Donals
14. Women's autobiographies Maria DiBattista
15. The 'new' memoir Patrick Madden
16. Creative non-fiction Mary Cappello.