Analyse: Contient un chapitre sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau et l'autobiographie.
Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and …
Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and…
Challenging the prevailing universalism that reduces whole cultures to contained stereotypes and persons to cultural representations, "De/Colonizing the Subject" frames the newest frontier of critical investigation -- colonial and postcolonial autobiography of the embodies subje…
1. The G word and the H word -- 2. The modality of the "I" (part 1) -- 3. The modality of the "I" (part 2) -- 4. Tone and intimacy.
Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and t…
