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Altered Egos : Authority in American Autobiography.
This work explores the ""authority"" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This work explores the ""authority"" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparentcongruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, or referring to a pre-existing self, Couser examines the ways in which theauthority of page. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195345230 0195345231 |