Fabricating lives : explorations in American autobiography
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書誌事項
Fabricating lives : explorations in American autobiography
（A New Directions paperbook, 715）
New Directions, 1991
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-371) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Long fascinated by the "renegade power" of autobiography and by "its multiple forms of self-disclosure and self-concealment," Herbert Leibowitz explores his lifelong interest in Fabricating Lives. A lively and original study of eight American autobiographers, the book examines the problem posed by an art where craftiness is hand in glove with craft: after all, a memoirist wants us to perceive him in a certain way; how do we penetrate his strategies and subterfuges? "The self," Leibowitz answers, "reveals itself through style." To discover the human essence of his subjects, he scrutinizes their styles (including Benjamin Franklin's plain talk and "possum's wit," Gertrude Stein's "gossipy ventriloquism," and William Carlos Williams' "grumpy clowning" and foxy innocence), looking beyond their visions of themselves to their true identities.
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