Studies in autobiography / edited by James Olney.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Olney, James.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on Autobiography and Autobiography Studies (1985 : Louisiana State University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

American prose literature.

Autobiography--Congresses.

Autobiography.

English prose literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

English prose literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 228 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

This volume brings together seventeen original papers on autobiography and autobiography studies by an international group of outstanding writers, critics, and scholars. The contributors address a wide range of autobiographical topics, from the general (Wallace Fowlie on writing autobiography and Felicity Nussbaum on conceptualizing diary) to the particular (James M. Cox's study of the memoirs of Henry James and Thomas R. Smith's assessment of Henry Adams's objectivity in The Education). An extended sequence on Afro-American and Native American autobiography, presents contributions by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., G. Thomas Couser, William L. Andrews, and John Sekora. A sequence on autobiographical writings by women includes Germaine Bree's essay on "autogynography" and contributions by Julia Watson, Suzanne Bunkers, and Linda H. Peterson. Papers by Ira B. Nadel, Paul John Eakin, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Georges Gusdorf, and Charles J. Rzepka complete the book, making it an unusually broad-based and authoritative statement of current issues and themes in the field.

Notes:

Essays from the International Symposium on Autobiography and Autobiography Studies, held at Louisiana State University in Mar. 1985.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0195051319

OCLC:

17353539