Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fello

Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar literary forms, and analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing. She also discusses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780199669240
• ISBN-10: 0199669244
• Artikelnr.: 49785189

Autorenporträt

Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Marcus has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, with books on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, modernist writing and literature and film. Her publications in the field of life-writing include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Manchester Univerity Press, 1994), and numerous essays on autobiography and biography.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Confession, Conversion, Testimony
2: The Journeying Self
3: Autobiographical Consciousness
4: Autobiography and psychoanalysis
5: Family Histories and the Autobiography of Childhood
6: Public Selves
7: Self-portraiture, photography and performance
References
Further Reading
Index