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Modernism and autobiography/
"This volume offers seventeen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness....
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| Định dạng: | Printed Book |
| Được phát hành: |
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | http://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Autobiography-Professor-Maria-DiBattista/dp/1107025222?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 |
| Tóm tắt: | "This volume offers seventeen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ancestry and tradition that foreground the modernists' troubled relation to their immediate familial as well as cultural past; their emergence as writers whose experiences found expression in untraditional and singular forms; their sense of themselves as survivors of personal and historical traumas; and their burdens as self-chroniclers of loss, especially of self-loss. It will appeal especially to scholars and students of literary modernism and English literature more generally"-- |
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| Mô tả vật lý: | xix, 228p. illustrations ; |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| số ISBN: | 9781107025226 |