
Autobiography and Imagination
Studies in Self-scrutiny
John Pilling(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
190 pages
978-1-138-94198-4 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers - Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the writer stamps his personality on the work by mean of a distinctive verbal surface whose discipline enables him to evade narrow egotism and forces both reader and writer into an act of collaboration and corroboration. Written at a time when criticism was turning to focus on the relation between the reader and the text, this study added a provocative dimension to the debate and is still an important read today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-94198-4 (9781138941984)
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Content
Introduction 1. Henry Adams: 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) 2. Henry James: 'A Small Boy and Others' (1913) 3. W. B. Yeats: 'Reveries Over Childhood and Youth' (1914) 4. Boris Pasternak: 'Safe Conduct' (1931) 5. Michael Leiris: 'L'Age d'homme' (1939) 6. Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Les Mots' (1964) 7. Vadmimir Nabokov: 'Speak, Memory' (1966). Conclusion. Appendix A: Henry Green: 'Pack My Bag' (1940). Appendix B: Adrian Stokes: 'Inside Out' (1947)