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Autobiography : Toward a Poetics of Experience /

Autobiography, Gunn argues, must be reunderstood as a cultural act of "reading" the self, not as a private act of "writing" the self. Moreover, the self that is read (both by the autobiographer and the reader of autobiography) is the displayed self, not the hidden self-the self t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gunn, Janet Varner (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Autobiographical Situation
  • 2. The Autobiographical Impulse: Walden and the Temporal Mode of Autobiographical Narrative
  • 3. The Autobiographical Perspective: The Hermeneutic of Landscape in Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
  • 4. The Autobiographical Response: The Stereoscope of Readership in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
  • 5. The Worldliness of Autobiography: Augustine's Confessions, Black Elk Speaks, and the Credo Ut Intelligam
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index