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Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century

Categorie	Secundair
Boeknummer	#282667
Titel	Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
Auteur	Finney, Brian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1985
ISBN10	0195037383
ISBN13	9780195037388
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Although many works of autobiography exist, few works on autobiography have been written, and no single book has ever before been devoted to English literary autobiographies of the twentieth century. This incisive study of selected autobipgraphical works by British novelists, poets, and playwrights begins with "Versions of Truth," in which Finney set out to demonstrate--using among others the works of W. H. Davies, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, and Christopher Isherwood--the extent to which autobiographical narrative, like other forms of narrative, makes heavy use of aesthetic criteria even when the writer is most concerned with giving a completely honest version of the facts. The second section, "In Search of Self," reviews the ways modern autobiographers have chosen t... (Lees verder)o portray themselves ased on psychoanalytical insights peculiar to the 20th century. Employing the theories of Freud and Jung, Finney reads the autobiographies of Edmund Gosse, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Stephen Spender, and others to demonstrate the nature of the insights psychology has to offer readers and writers of 20th-century autobiography.
Pagina's	286
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 11,00

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