Autobiography
Published on 22. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-0-415-18635-3 (ISBN)
Description
This addition to the acclaimed New Critical Idiom series offers a wide-ranging introduction to the study of autobiography and a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day.
Autobiography follows the important developments in autobiographical criticism in the last thirty years, paying particular attention to psychoanalytic, poststructualist and feminist approaches. Autobiography:
outlines the main theoretical issues and concepts of this area
looks at the different forms from confessions to narratives to memoirs to diaries
considers the major writers of this tradition
looks at the ideological assumptions about the nature of the self.
Autobiography follows the important developments in autobiographical criticism in the last thirty years, paying particular attention to psychoanalytic, poststructualist and feminist approaches. Autobiography:
outlines the main theoretical issues and concepts of this area
looks at the different forms from confessions to narratives to memoirs to diaries
considers the major writers of this tradition
looks at the ideological assumptions about the nature of the self.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-18635-3 (9780415186353)
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Linda Anderson is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her recent publications include Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1997), Women's Lives/Women's Times (edited with Trev Broughton, 1996) and Territories of Desire in Queer Culture (edited with David Alderson, 2000).