This work explores the significance of the genre of autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private - debates now figured in feminist theory.
In this critical study, the author explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in 19th- and 20th-century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction - debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as an instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius"; the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiographical and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life writing.
In this critical study, the author explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in 19th- and 20th-century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction - debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as an instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius"; the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiographical and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life writing.
This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
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