Claire Boyle

Consuming Autobiographies

Reading and Writing the Self in Post-war France

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Claire Boyle presents an account of the death of autobiography in the post-war era of French literature. She challenges assumptions that are sometimes made about why it is that writers are reluctant to be associated with the genre of autobiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 170mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780367603793
• ISBN-10: 0367603799
• Artikelnr.: 66583937

Autorenporträt

Claire Boyle

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Autobiography: Orthodoxies and Paradoxes 2. Sarraute
Writing the Self: The Drama of Self-Possession 3. Perec: Autobiography,
Possession and the Dispossessed Self 4. Genet Inside and Out:
Autobiography, Marginality and Empowerment 5. Helene Cixous: Autobiography,
the Ethics of Knowledge and Strategies of Self-Writing 6. Conclusion