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Metaphors of Self : The Meaning of Autobiography / James Olney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5097Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1972Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400886449
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920 23
LOC classification:
  • CT25 .O44 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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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

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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 technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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