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The Culture of Autobiography Robert Folkenflik

The Culture of Autobiography By Robert Folkenflik

The Culture of Autobiography by Robert Folkenflik

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Diverse tendencies in critical and cultural theory have combined to give autobiography a new importance. The essays in this collection address from different vantage points the larger problems posed by the form and the question of its institutional and cultural marginality.

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The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation by Robert Folkenflik

Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the institution of autobiography Robert Folkenflik; 2. Theory versus autobiography John Sturrock; 3. The autobiographical process Jerome Bruner; 4. Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography Julia Watson; 5. Institutionalizing women's autobiography: nineteenth-century editors and the shaping of an autobiographical tradition Linda H. Peterson; 6. Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography Lindon Barrett; 7. The Mexican immigrant as *: the (de) formation of Mexican immigrant life story Genaro M. Padilla; 8. What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik Barbara D. Metcalf; 9. 'In me the solitary sublimity': posturing and the collapse of romantic will in Bejamin Robert Haydon Roger J. Porter; 10. Hogarth's self-representations Ronald Paulson; 11. The self as other Robert Folkenflik; Notes; Index.

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CIN0804720487G
9780804720489
0804720487
The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation by Robert Folkenflik
Robert Folkenflik
Irvine Studies in the Humanities
Used - Good
Paperback
Stanford University Press
1993-07-31
288
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