Autobiography : essays theoretical and critical / edited by James Olney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olney, James, Author.

Contributor:

Olney, James, editor.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 769

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction / Olney, James

Conditions and Limits of Autobiography / Gusdorf, Georges

Full of Life Now / Mandel, Barrett J.

The Style of Autobiography / Starobinski, Jean

Some Principles of Autobiography / Howarth, William L.

Confessions and Autobiography / Spender, Stephen

Recovering Literature's Lost Ground Through Autobiography / Cox, James M.

Autobiography and the Making of America / Sayre, Robert F.

Black Autobiography: Life as the Death Weapon / Rosenblatt, Roger

Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography / Eakin, Paul John

Michel Leiris: Mazemaker / Brée, Germaine

The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers / Mason, Mary G.

Some Versions of Memory/Some Versions of Bios: The Ontology of Autobiography / Olney, James

The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography / Renza, Louis A.

Eye for I: Making and Unmaking Autobiography in Film / Bruss, Elizabeth W.

Fictions of the Self: The End of Autobiography / Sprinker, Michael

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64357-1

0-691-10080-2

0-691-61626-4

1-4008-5631-0

OCLC:

884013410