Self impression : Life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature / Max Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Max.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography as a literary form.

Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Val--eacute--;ry, Moi.Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: MODERN IRONIZATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN DE SIÈCLE PRECURSORS; 1. Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater; 2. Aesthetic Auto/biography: Ruskin and Proust; 3. Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as Disturbances in fin de siècle Auto/biography: 'Mark Rutherford', George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Others; 4. Autobiografiction: Stephen Reynolds and A. C. Benson; 5. Auto/biografiction: Counterfeit Lives: A Taxonomy of Displacements of Fiction towards Life-Writing

6. Literary Impressionism and Impressionist Autobiographies: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox FordPART II: MODERNIST AUTO/BIOGRAFICTION; 7. Heteronymity I: Imaginary Authorship and Imaginary Autobiography: Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo; 8. Heteronymity II: Taxonomies of Fictional Creativity: Joyce (continued) and Stein; 9. Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in Verse: Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; 10. Satirical Auto/biografiction: Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington; 11. Woolf, Bloomsbury, the 'New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction

12. After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, ByattConclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-161473-4

0-19-965769-6

9786612544736

0-19-157374-4

1-282-54473-X

OCLC:

638332907