Strindberg and autobiography / Michael Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Michael, 1944 July 13- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912--History and criticism.

Strindberg, August.

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Norvik Press : Ubiquity Press, 2013.

Summary:

This is book about Strindberg and about the nature of autobiographical writing. The myth which any writer generates about his own experiences will always leave a distinctive stamp on his work. In the case of Strindberg - a consummate creator as well as player of roles- a sense of the configuration of that myth is of crucial importance for a proper understanding of the author's achievement. In this sensitive and discerning study, Michael Robinson has turned aside from the more traditional biographical approach to Strindberg. Instead, he sets out to explore the highly idiosyncratic way in which Strindberg projected himself in language, looking at the problems which this brought in its trail, and laying bare the subterfuges it engendered. He has not limited himself to those works explicitly designated by Strindberg as autobiographical, but ranges widely over the dramas, the narratives and other prose works. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Writing a Life: An Approach to Strindberg's Project 1

Chapter 2 Writing Out and Repetition 21

Chapter 3 Writing, not Speaking: Strindberg, Language, and the Self 51

Chapter 4 Plot and Counter Plot, or Reading and Composing the Text of the Self 93

Chapter 5 Publishing the Private, or The Economics of Experience 123

Chapter 6 Conclusion 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-201) and index.

ISBN:

1909408018

9781909408012

OCLC:

851254857

Publisher Number:

99960275119