Autobiography
A Very Short Introduction
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9780199669240
Publication date:
12/07/2018
Paperback
168 pages
174x111mm
Price: 350.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199669240
Publication date:
12/07/2018
Paperback
168 pages
Laura Marcus
Defines what autobiographies are, and considers their relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays,Discusses how this form of writing provides literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists with an understanding of the ways in which past lives have been lived,Analyses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world,Considers the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, romanticism, and family relationships,Explores the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other,Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over nine million copies sold worldwide
Rights: OUP UK (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Laura Marcus
Description
Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.
In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by 'autobiography', and considers its relationship with similar
literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, OxfordLaura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Marcus has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, with books on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, modernist writing and literature and film. Her publications in the field of life-writing include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Manchester Univerity Press, 1994), and numerous essays on autobiography and biography.
Laura Marcus
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Confession, Conversion, Testimony
2:The Journeying Self
3:Autobiographical Consciousness
4:Autobiography and psychoanalysis
5:Family Histories and the Autobiography of Childhood
6:Public Selves
7:Self-portraiture, photography and performance
References
Further Reading
Index
Laura Marcus
Description
Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.
In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by 'autobiography', and considers its relationship with similar
literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area.
These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
About the author
Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, OxfordLaura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Marcus has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, with books on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, modernist writing and literature and film. Her publications in the field of life-writing include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Manchester Univerity Press, 1994), and numerous essays on autobiography and biography.
Table of contents
Introduction
1:Confession, Conversion, Testimony
2:The Journeying Self
3:Autobiographical Consciousness
4:Autobiography and psychoanalysis
5:Family Histories and the Autobiography of Childhood
6:Public Selves
7:Self-portraiture, photography and performance
References
Further Reading
Index
The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan, Vinay Dharwadker
Munshi Premchand, Snehal Shingavi, Vasudha Dalmia
Peter Hainsworth, David Robey
Colin MacCabe
Premchand, Lalit Srivastava
Robert Eaglestone
Rakhshanda Jalil
Matthew Bevis
Jenny Hartley
The Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray
Sukanta Chaudhuri
