Alexandra Effe

Gebundenes Buch

A History of Autofiction in English

Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18th-Century England to Contemporary Global Anglophone Literatures

Beschreibung

This book maps the development of autofictional modes from the 18th century to the 21st, setting them against socio-historical changes, cultural trends and philosophical-psychological discussions around self and the mind.

Autor

Alexandra Effe is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Literature, Cognition and Emotions at the University of Oslo, Norway, and teaches Anglophone and comparative literature at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. She is the author of J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression: A Reconsideration of Metalepsis (2017) co-editor of The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms (2021) and Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode (2023). As Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she co-convened the project "Autofiction in Global Perspective."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350539570
• ISBN-10: 1350539570
• Artikelnr.: 73490496