Autobiography and imagination : studies in self-scrutiny / John Pilling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilling, John., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography

Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Imagination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers - Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the writer stamps his personality on the work by mean of a distinctive verbal surface whose discipline enables him to evade narrow egotism and forces both reader and writer into an act of collaboration and corroboration. Written at a time when criticism was turning to focus on the relation between the reader and the text, this study added a provocative dimension to the debate and is still an important read today.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Original Title Page""; ""Original Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Henry Adams: 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907)""; ""2 Henry James: 'A Small Boy and Others' (1913)""; ""3 W. B. Yeats: 'Reveries Over Childhood and Youth' (1914)""; ""4 Boris Pasternak: 'Safe Conduct' (1931)""; ""5 Michel Leiris: 'L' Age d' homme' (1939)""; ""6 Jean-Paul Sartre: 'Les Mots' (1964)""; ""7 Vladimir Nabokov: 'Speak, Memory' (1966)""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendices""

""A Henry Green: 'Pack My Bag' (1940)""""B Adrian Stokes: 'Inside Out' (1947)""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Notes:

First published in 1981.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

ISBN:

1-317-37958-6

1-315-67457-2

1-317-37957-8

9781315674575

OCLC:

919086952