Autobiography and Imagination
Studies in Self-scrutiny
Published on 20. August 2015
190 pages
978-1-317-37957-7 (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
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Reflowable
File size
0,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-37957-7 (9781317379577)
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Content
Introduction, John Pilling; Chapter 1 Henry Adams:, John Pilling; Chapter 2 Henry James:, John Pilling; Chapter 3 W.B. Yeats:, John Pilling; Chapter 4 Boris Pasternak:, John Pilling; Chapter 5 Michel Leiris:, John Pilling; Chapter 6 Jean-Paul Sartre:, John Pilling; Chapter 7 Vladimir Nabokov:, John Pilling; Chapter 8 Conclusion, John PillingAppendices, John Pilling;
