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The philosophy of autobiography /
"We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero--even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theorists have noticed, as the genres of "crea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what is a philosophy of autobiography?
- Art imitating life imitating art: literary narrative and autobiographical narrative / Marya Schechtman
- A person's words: literary characters and autobiographical understanding / Garry L. Hagberg
- Body, memory, and irrelevancies in Hiroshima Mon Amour / Christopher Hamilton
- Memory, self-understanding, and agency / Marina Oshana
- Telling our own stories: narrative selves and oppressive circumstance / John Christman
- Self-deception, self-knowledge, and autobiography / Somogy Varga
- Autobiographical acts / K. Levy
- Writing about others: an autobiographical perspective / Merete Mazzarella
- From "I" to "we": acts of agency in Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophical Autobiography / J. Lenore Wright
- Fraudulence, obscurity, and exposure: the autobiographical anxieties of Stanley Cavell / Ine Mahon.