Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective

Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective / by Nicholas Meihuizen.

In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone. Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self's immersion...

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Main Author: Meihuizen, Nicholas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2016]
Series:Costerus.
Subjects:
Autobiography > Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Autobiography > Authorship
Biography as a literary form
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Table of Contents:
  • Yeats's reveries over childhood and youth
  • Conrad: a personal record
  • Martin Amis: experience
  • Frank Kermode: not entitled
  • Andrew Motion: In the blood, a memoir of my childhood
  • Three authors: Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee.

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