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
- : hbk
- : 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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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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