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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44986506*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Edmund Gosse's Father and Son, modernism, and a history of nerves / Francis O'Gorman
- The 'fascination of what I loathed': science and self in W.B. Yeats's Autobiographies / Rónán McDonald
- Writing at sea: Conrad's Personal Record of 'my life', and 'my two lives' / Michael Levenson
- Two Henrys: James and Adams as autobiographers / Lee Mitchell
- Spaces of time: Virginia Woolf's life-writing / Elizabeth Abel
- Travel writing as modernist autobiography: Evelyn Waugh's Labels and the writing personality / Jonathan Greenberg
- Queer autobiographical masquerade: Stein, Toklas, and others / Barbara Will
- A young writer grows old: Elizabeth Bowen's autobiographies / Allan Hepburn
- 'Leaving the Territory': Ralph Ellison's backward glance / Marc Conner
- Touching semiliterate lives: Indian soldiers, the Great War, and life-"writing" / Santanu Das
- The last of Katherine Mansfield: the affective life in the Journal and the Letters / Jay Dickson
- T.S. Eliot's impersonal correspondence / Max Saunders
- The real Hem / Maria DiBattista
- 'Death Before the Fact': posthumous autobiography in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Smile Please / Emily O. Wittman
- Abstraction, impersonality, dissolution / Robert L. Caserio
- Name after name: Beckett's secret autobiography / Michael Wood.
