Consuming Autobiographies

Reading and Writing the Self in Post-war France
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-905981-10-6
Verlag: Maney Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Legenda

In this book, Claire Boyle presents an account of the death of autobiography in the post-war era of French literature. She challenges assumptions that are sometimes made about why it is that writers are reluctant to be associated with the genre of autobiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyle, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Autobiography: Orthodoxies and Paradoxes 2. Sarraute Writing the Self: The Drama of Self-Possession 3. Perec: Autobiography, Possession and the Dispossessed Self 4. Genet Inside and Out: Autobiography, Marginality and Empowerment 5. Helene Cixous: Autobiography, the Ethics of Knowledge and Strategies of Self-Writing 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Boyle