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The made-up self : impersonation in the personal essay /
In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks the writer's made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essay have brought it to life. By reconceiving the most fundamental aspect of the personal essay--the I of the essayist--Klaus demonst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "person" in a personal essay
- Evocations of consciousness
- Montaigne on "Montaigne": toward a poetics of self
- The mind and the mind's idiosyncrasy: ideas of consciousness in the personal essay
- Discontinuous: form of consciousness
- Evocations of personality
- Voices on voice: the singular "I" and the chameleon "I"
- Elia: pseudonymous self extraordinaire
- Never to be yourself and yet always: Virginia Woolf on the essayist's problem
- Personae and culture
- Difference and "I": cultural consciousness in the personal essay
- Orwell's "A hanging": politics and the first-person singular/plural
- Personae and personal experience
- Illness and "I": malady in the personal essay
- Days into essays: a self for all seasons.