Autobiography
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Autobiography

Toward a Poetics of Experience

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Autobiography

Toward a Poetics of Experience

About this book

Autobiography, Gunn argues, must be reunderstood as a cultural act of "reading" the self, not as a private act of "writing" the self. Moreover, the self that is read (both by the autobiographer and the reader of autobiography) is the displayed self, not the hidden self—the self that appears in the world and can be experienced, and thereby realized, by others. Drawing on narrative theory, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, Gunn locates the literary features of autobiography in the larger anthropological context of what she calls "the autobiographical situation."An elegantly constructed interdisciplinary analysis, this book renders the hybrid genre of autobiography freshly problematic.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 The Autobiographical Situation
  5. 2 The Autobiographical Impulse: WALDEN AND THE TEMPORAL MODE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE
  6. 3 The Autobiographical Perspective: THE HERMENEUTIC OF LANDSCAPE IN WORDSWORTH'S "TINTERN ABBEY"
  7. 4 The Autobiographical Response: THE STEREOSCOPE OF READERSHIP IN PROUST'S REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
  8. 5 The Worldliness of Autobiography: AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS, BLACK ELK SPEAKS, AND THE CREDO UT INTELLIGAM
  9. Selected Bibliography
  10. Index