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020 _a9781512801835
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781512801835
035 _a(DE-B1597)475300
035 _a(OCoLC)979743436
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082 0 4 _a810.9/492
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFichtelberg, Joseph
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Complex Image :
_bFaith and Method in American Autobiography /
_cJoseph Fichtelberg.
250 _aReprint 2016
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (252 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aAnniversary Collection
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Varieties of Self: The Case of Friedrich Nietzsche --
_t2. The American Voice: Walt Whitman --
_t3. The Corporate Ideal: Thomas Shepard and John Wool man --
_t4. Republican Dionysus: Benjamin Franklin --
_t5. Black Jeremiah: Frederick Douglass --
_t6. Reluctant Modern: Gertrude Stein --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies. He reexamines the problem of the autobiographical subject from a poststructuralist perspective, and he places that problem in the context of American culture. As a framework for his unique study, he offers a reading of Ecce Homo that argues that Nietzsche's autobiographical "I" is both buried in and created by the text itself. Only by revising his text, by retelling his life to himself, can Nietzsche arrive at self-knowledge. Ultimately, Nietzsche finds himself in all literature everywhere. He becomes a universal soul.Fichtelberg demonstrates that Nietzsche's complex ideas about where subject and language meet in a text can be used to understand the dominant millennial impulse evident in American autobiographies. Thomas Shepard cast the American portion of his autobiography as a compendium of colonial triumphs; John Woolman rearranged his Journal to make a vision of Christian unity its climax; and Walt Whitman fashioned Specimen Days to highlight his late tour of the west during which he realized an earlier poetic vision of national unity. In the nineteenth century, this easy faith in millennial union began to collapse, and Fichtelberg contends that it remained only in the autobiographies of such "marginal" groups as those represented by Frederick Douglass arid Gertrude Stein. He offers a close analysis of their autobiographies and, in a concluding chapter, examines the work of four recent writers: W. E. B. DuBois, Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and Maya Angelou.The Complex Image will interest scholars and students of American history and literature.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
650 0 _aAmerican prose literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_xBiography
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAutobiography.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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653 _aCultural Studies.
653 _aLiterature.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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