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Autobiography : Essays Theoretical and Critical / James Olney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 769Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 1980Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (374 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400856312
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809
LOC classification:
  • CT25
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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