Literary Selves by James N Stull
Departing from previous discussions of literary nonfiction in terms of its being literature or journalism, this new study treats literary nonfiction as autobiography, examining a large body of work in terms of autobiographical theory. The collected works of six very different prominent literary journalists--John McPhee, Joe McGinniss, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Norman Mailer--are analyzed from literary, autobiographical, and cultural perspectives. Author James Stull explains how the complex, fully-rounded psychological and social self is crystalized in these works into a more encompassing statement of self-identification, which he calls a metaphor of self, a distinctive way an author presents a self and its world. Numerous other writers and critics are brought into the discussion, and the author provides an extensive reference bibliography.-
Homeric Rhythm
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Fighting Evil
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Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults
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Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy
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The Life and Works of Ruskin Bond
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Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books
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Reluctant Expatriate
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Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire
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Afro-Cuban Literature
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The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children
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Styles of Ruin
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English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell
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Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction
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Prometheus and Faust
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Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest
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The Novels of Samuel Selvon
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Pearl S. Buck
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Sitting at the Feet of the Past
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True Relations
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George Orwell
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The Tales We Tell
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James Merrill's Poetic Quest
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Smollett's Women
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Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation
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The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture
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Imagining Africa
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In My Own Shire
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Becoming True to Ourselves
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The Second Best Bed
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The Decline of the Goddess
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Writing the Body in D.H. Lawrence
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Samuel Johnson and the Essay
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Child of the Earth
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Caliban in Exile
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Naguib Mahfouz's Egypt
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Goethe in the Twentieth Century
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Dostoevski and the Human Condition After a Century
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There Is No Truer Truth
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Aksel Sandemose
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Elmer Diktonius
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Scenarios of Modernist Disintegration
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The Writer Written
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Interactive Fictions
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Per Olof Sundman
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Darkness at Heart
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The Devil's Advocates
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Writing the Good Fight
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Contemporary Polish Theatre and Drama (1956-1984)
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Women Writers in Russian Literature
JAMES N. STULL is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of English at Iowa State University. His academic specialties include contemporary nonfiction, American literature, and advertising and other aspects of popular culture, and his publications in these areas have appeared in the Connecticut Review, the North Dakota Quarterly, the Canadian Review of American Studies, and the Journal of Popular Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780313288258 |
| ISBN 10 | 0313288259 |
| Title | Literary Selves |
| Author | James N Stull |
| Series | Contributions To The Study Of World Literature Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 1993-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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