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Auto/Biographical Discourses Laura Marcus

Auto/Biographical Discourses By Laura Marcus

Auto/Biographical Discourses by Laura Marcus

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Summary

This work explores the significance of the genre of autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private - debates now figured in feminist theory.

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Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Laura Marcus

In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.

About Laura Marcus

Laura Marcus is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical discourses
2. Auto/biography: between literature and science
3. Bringing the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new biography'
4. Autobiography and historical consciousness
5. Saving the subject
6. The law of genre
7. Auto/biographical spaces
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR003960146
9780719055300
071905530X
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Laura Marcus
Laura Marcus
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
1998-11-19
322
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