The culture of autobiography : constructions of self-representation
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The culture of autobiography : constructions of self-representation
(Irvine studies in the humanities)
Stanford University Press, 1993
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- : pbk
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"The conference ... held at the University of California Humanities Research Institute on March 3-4, 1990"--Acknowledgments
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780804720472
Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Table of Contents
Contents Folkenflik Robert Sturrock John Bruner Jerome Watson Julia Peterson Linda H. Barrett Lindon Padilla Genaro M. Metcalf Barbara D. Porter Roger J. Paulson Ronald Folkenflik Robert
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780804720489
Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
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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