Roger J Porter

Self-Same Songs

Autobiographical Performances and Reflections

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Produktbeschreibung

"Self-Same Songs" constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to modify the life in the act of writing about it. Then, stepping out of his critical role, Porter ends each chapter with an autobiographical discussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under discussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 174mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780803287679
• ISBN-10: 0803287674
• Artikelnr.: 21927702

Autorenporträt

Roger J. Porter is a professor of English at Reed College and one of the pioneering scholars in the literary study of autobiography. He is the coauthor (with Howard Wolf) of The Voice Within: Reading and Writing Autobiography and the coauthor (with Lisa Shara Hall) of A Food Lover's Companion to Portland.