Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective / by Nicholas Meihuizen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meihuizen, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Costerus ; new ser., v. 216.

Costerus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Authorship.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

229 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2016]

Summary:

In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone- Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self's immersion in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world. The quality of the resultant self-scrutiny enables the author to transform everyday reflex into the act of attention that results in formal achievement, a uniquely crafted structure. Meihuizens book helps demonstrate how each piece of autobiographical writing under consideration in it (works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee) discovers a unique form. Book jacket.

Contents:

Yeats's reveries over childhood and youth

Conrad: a personal record

Martin Amis: experience

Frank Kermode: not entitled

Andrew Motion: In the blood, a memoir of my childhood

Three authors: Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Meihuizen, Nicholas, author. Achieving autobiographical form.

ISBN:

9789004311039

9004311033

OCLC:

928615036