Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9780415572132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 176 str.

Linda Anderson

Opis

This text offers an introduction to the study of autobiography, and provides a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day. It outlines the main theoretical issues and concepts of this genre.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Authors and Subjects  The Law of Genre  Poststructuralist Interventions  1. Historians of the Self  Saint Augustine’s Confessions  Non-conforming Selves: John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding  Serial Selves: James Boswell and Hester Thrale  Sublime Egos: Rousseau and Wordsworth 2. Subjectivity, Representation and Narrative  Freud’s Unconscious  Barthes’ Autobiographical Signs  Derrida and the Traces of Autobiography  Feminism and Poststructuralism  3. Other Subjects  Gender, Modernism and Autobiography  Locating Difference  Landscape for a Good Woman  Postcolonial Subjects  4. Narrative  Contemporary Memoir Writing  5. Practising Autobiography  Personal Criticism  Testimony and Memory  Politics and Memory  Glossary  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Linda Anderson is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her recent publications include Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1997), Women's Lives/Women's Times (edited with Trev Broughton, 1996) and Territories of Desire in Queer Culture (edited with David Alderson, 2000).