Aesthetic autobiography : from life to art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin
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Aesthetic autobiography : from life to art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anaïs Nin
Macmillan, 1994
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 210-215
Includes index
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Description
'A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in their wake - Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterised by a common aesthetics. She discovers in these writings a threshold of artistic transformation beyond the identification of biographical authenticity.
Table of Contents
Preface - Historical Paradigms - Theories of Autobiography - A Theory of Aesthetic Autobiography - The Art of Misrepresentation in Marcel Proust - The Stylised Quotidian in James Joyce - Distancing and Displacement in Virginia Woolf - The Mythification of Selfhood in Anais Nin - Envoi - Notes - References - Index
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