Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing - Brossura

Olney, James

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ISBN 10: 0226628175 ISBN 13: 9780226628172

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

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Informazioni sull'autore

James Olney is the Voorhies Professor of English and professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, most recentlyThe Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is also coeditor ofThe Southern Review.

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Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding books in literary scholarship or criticism

Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy and, as Olney explains, found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226628175
• ISBN 13: 9780226628172
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 446
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