French Autobiography Devices and Desires: Rousseau to Perec

ISBN-13: 9780198158431 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 368 str.

Michael Sheringham

Opis

This important book uses close readings of sixteen key French autobiographers to provide a major contribution to theoretical discussions of the genre. Sheringham traces the development of autobiography in French from Rousseau, exploring the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the relation to the reader, the problem of memory, and the influence of other texts and people.

Recenzje

the persistent reader will be richly rewarded...The book has something to offer all scholars interested in autobiography as well as lucid critical analyses of individual texts...His work confirms what we already knew: that the French autobiographical tradition is extraordinarily rich.