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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couser, G. Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P.T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes. 
505 8 |a Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
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