Altered egos : authority in American autobiography /

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This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couser, G. Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Autobiography.
Authority in literature.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Autobiographies as Topic
Autobiographie.
Autorité dans la littérature.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
Authority in literature
Autobiography
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Autobiografieën.
Gezag.
Autobiographical prose in English > American writers - Critical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: the case of the counterfeit autobiography
  • Introduction: authority, autobiography, America
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: self-constitutional conventions
  • Prose and cons: the autobiographies of P.T. Barnum
  • False "I's": Mark Twain's pseudonymous autobiography
  • (En)slave(d) narrative: early Afro-American autobiography
  • Mary Boykin Chesnut: succession, confederacy, reconstruction
  • Black Elk Speaks with forked tongue
  • Biculturalism in contemporary autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston.

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