Self impression : life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature

Self impression : life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature / Max Saunders.

Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing such as biography, autobiography, memoir, diary and journal for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late 19th century and provides a fresh...

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Main Author: Saunders, Max (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiographical fiction > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Autobiographical fiction
Biography as a literary form
Literature, Modern
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modern ironizations of auto/biography and the emergence of autobiografiction : Victorian and fin de siècle precursors. Im/personality : the imaginary portraits of Walter Pater
  • Aesthetic auto/biography : Ruskin and Proust
  • Pseudonymity, third-personality, and anonymity as disturbances in fin de siècle auto/biography : "Mark Rutherford", George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Others
  • Autobiografiction : Stephen Reynolds and A.C. Benson
  • Auto/biografication : counterfeit lives : a taxonomy of displacements of fiction towards life-writing
  • Literary impressionism and impressionist autobiographies : Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford
  • Modernist auto/biografiction. Heteronymity I : imaginary authorship and imaginary autobiography : Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo
  • Heteronymity II : taxonomies of fictional creativity : Joyce (continued) and Stein
  • Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in verse : Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
  • Satirical auto/biografiction : Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington
  • Woolf, Bloomsbury, the "New biography", and the new auto/biografiction
  • After-lives : postmodern experiments in meta-auto/biografiction : Sartre, Nabokov, Lessings, Byatt.

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