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Titre(s) : Modernism and autobiography [Texte imprimé] / edited by Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman
Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : xix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Edmund Gosse's Father and Son, modernism, and a history of nerves / Francis O'Gorman
; The 'fascination of what I loathed': science and self in W. B. Yeats's Autobiographies
/ Rónán McDonald ; Writing at sea: Conrad's Personal Record of 'my life', and 'my
two lives' / Michael Levenson ; Two Henrys: James and Adams as autobiographers /
Lee Mitchell ; Spaces of time: Virginia Woolf's life-writing / Elizabeth Abel ;
Travel writing as modernist autobiography: Evelyn Waugh's Labels and the writing personality
/ Jonathan Greenberg ; Queer autobiographical masquerade: Stein, Toklas, and others
/ Barbara Will ; A young writer grows old: Elizabeth Bowen's autobiographies / Allan
Hepburn ; 'Leaving the Territory': Ralph Ellison's backward glance / Marc Conner
; Touching semiliterate lives: Indian soldiers, the Great War, and life-"writing"
/ Santanu Das ; The last of Katherine Mansfield: the affective life in the Journal
and the Letters / Jay Dickson ; T. S. Eliot's impersonal correspondence / Max Saunders
; The real Hem / Maria DiBattista ; 'Death Before the Fact': posthumous autobiography
in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Smile Please / Emily O. Wittman ; Abstraction,
impersonality, dissolution / Robert L. Caserio ; Name after name: Beckett's secret
autobiography / Michael Wood.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This volume offers seventeen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness
and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose
to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address,
and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate
the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions
of ancestry and tradition that foreground the modernists' troubled relation to their
immediate familial as well as cultural past; their emergence as writers whose experiences
found expression in untraditional and singular forms; their sense of themselves as
survivors of personal and historical traumas; and their burdens as self-chroniclers
of loss, especially of self-loss. It will appeal especially to scholars and students
of literary modernism and English literature more generally"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : DiBattista, Maria (1947-....). Éditeur scientifique
Wittman, Emily Ondine (1971-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Autobiographie
Modernisme (littérature)
Autobiographie anglaise
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107025226 (hardback). - ISBN 1107025222 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44299518v
Notice n° :
FRBNF44299518
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