Alex Zwerdling

The Rise of the Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the rise of the memoir through an exploration of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Gosse,Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780198755784
• ISBN-10: 0198755783
• Artikelnr.: 47868410

Autorenporträt

Alex Zwerdling is Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Memoir as Project and Product
1: Rousseau and the Art of Secular Confession
2: Inventing the Family Memoir
3: Mastering the Memoir
4: Orwell s Reticence and the Need to Bear Witness
5: Remembering in Stages
6: Primo Levi s Recursive Memory
7: Imagining the Facts in Kingston s Memoirs