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The rise of the memoir /

A study of the rise of the memoir through an exploration of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Gosse, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zwerdling, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rousseau and the art of secular confession
  • Inventing the family memoir: Edmund Gosse's Father and son
  • Mastering the memoir: Woolf and the family legacy
  • Orwell's reticence and the need to bear witness
  • Remembering in stages: Nabokov's Speak, memory
  • Primo Levi's recursive memory
  • Imagining the facts in Kingston's memoirs.