Touching the World by Paul John Eakin

Touching the World by Paul John Eakin

This monograph explores what the author considers to be the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. He demonstrates that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. The text offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey and Lillian Hellman.

"Anyone interested in the dynamics of contemporary autobiography will want to read this wonderfully rich critical work, for it provides both an overview of theories of autobiography and a series of close readings of modern autobiographical texts [by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman] that serve to elucidate intrinsic tensions of the genre" * Comparative Literature *

Eakin, Paul John: - Paul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves; The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James; Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention; and Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography. He is the editor of The Ethics of Life Writing, also from Cornell; On Autobiography by Philippe Lejeune, and American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.

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Titel	Touching the World
Autor	Paul John Eakin
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-05-05
Seitenanzahl	268
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