The Complex Image : Faith and Method in American Autobiography /

In The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies. He reexamines the problem of the autobiographical subject from a poststructuralist perspective, and he places that problem in the context of American culture.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fichtelberg, Joseph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie.
Écrivains américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American prose literature
Authors, American > Biography
Autobiography
Biography
United States > Biography > History and criticism.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Varieties of Self: The Case of Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 2. The American Voice: Walt Whitman
  • 3. The Corporate Ideal: Thomas Shepard and John Wool man
  • 4. Republican Dionysus: Benjamin Franklin
  • 5. Black Jeremiah: Frederick Douglass
  • 6. Reluctant Modern: Gertrude Stein
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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