Autobiography: Toward a Poetics of Experience - Rilegato

Gunn, Janet Varner

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ISBN 10: 0812278348 ISBN 13: 9780812278347

Casa editrice: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982

Riassunto

Autobiography, Gunn argues, must be reunderstood as a cultural act of "reading" the self, not as a private act of "writing" the self. Moreover, the self that is read (both by the autobiographer and the reader of autobiography) is the displayed self, not the hidden self-the self that appears in the world and can be experienced, and thereby realized, by others. Drawing on narrative theory, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, Gunn locates the literary features of autobiography in the larger anthropological context of what she calls "the autobiographical situation." An elegantly constructed interdisciplinary analysis, this book renders the hybrid genre of autobiography freshly problematic.

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Book by Gunn Janet Varner

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• Editore: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0812278348
• ISBN 13: 9780812278347
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 168