Auto/Biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice - Rilegato

Marcus, Laura

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719036429 ISBN 13: 9780719036422

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction--debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as a magical instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius;" the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiography and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life-writing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719036429
• ISBN 13: 9780719036422
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile