TY - BOOK AU - Olney,James AU - Bruss,Elizabeth W. AU - Brée,Germaine AU - Cox,James M. AU - Eakin,Paul John AU - Gusdorf,Georges AU - Howarth,William L. AU - Mandel,Barrett J. AU - Mason,Mary G. AU - Olney,James AU - Renza,Louis A. AU - Rosenblatt,Roger AU - Sayre,Robert F. AU - Spender,Stephen AU - Sprinker,Michael AU - Starobinski,Jean TI - Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9781400856312 AV - CT25 U1 - 809 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Autobiography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General KW - bisacsh KW - Aldous Huxley KW - Alex Haley KW - Anatomy of Criticism KW - Anne Bradstreet KW - Antithesis KW - Archetype KW - Arthur Schopenhauer KW - Benvenuto Cellini KW - Biography KW - Black Boy KW - Consciousness KW - Cotton Mather KW - D. H. Lawrence KW - Diary KW - Edmund Gosse KW - Emotionalism KW - Erudition KW - Essay KW - Existentialism KW - F. Scott Fitzgerald KW - Fiction KW - Georges Bataille KW - Giambattista Vico KW - Hack writer KW - Henri Bergson KW - Henry David Thoreau KW - Intentionality KW - James Thurber KW - Jean-Jacques Rousseau KW - Man alone (stock character) KW - Mark Twain KW - Memoir KW - Michel de Montaigne KW - Most Secret KW - Myth KW - Narrative KW - Negative capability KW - Non-fiction KW - Nostalgia KW - Notes of a Son and Brother KW - Of Grammatology KW - Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche KW - Physiognomy KW - Picaresque novel KW - Plotinus KW - Puritans KW - Ralph Waldo Emerson KW - Religion KW - Rex Warner KW - Romanticism KW - Semiotics KW - Siegfried Sassoon KW - Speech and Phenomena KW - Spiritual autobiography KW - Spirituality KW - Stage Beauty KW - Suetonius KW - Søren Kierkegaard KW - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin KW - The Death of the Author KW - The Dissertation KW - The Narrator KW - The Philosopher KW - Theatre of the Absurd KW - Theodore Dreiser KW - Unstated assumption KW - Well-made play KW - Wilhelm Dilthey KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction --; Conditions and Limits of Autobiography --; Full of Life Now --; The Style of Autobiography --; Some Principles of Autobiography --; Confessions and Autobiography --; Recovering Literature's Lost Ground Through Autobiography --; Autobiography and the Making of America --; Black Autobiography: Life as the Death Weapon --; Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography --; Michel Leiris: Mazemaker --; The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers --; Some Versions of Memory/Some Versions of Bios: The Ontology of Autobiography --; The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography --; Eye for I: Making and Unmaking Autobiography in Film --; Fictions of the Self: The End of Autobiography --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades.Originally published in 1980.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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856312 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400856312 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400856312/original ER -