Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective /

Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective /

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Author / Creator:Meihuizen, Nicholas, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2016]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Costerus New Series ; volume 216
Costerus.
Subject:
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909307
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ISBN:9004311041
9789004311046
9789004311039
9004311033
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2016).
Summary: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 in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world. The quality of the resultant self-scrutiny enables the author to transform everyday reflex into the act of attention that results in formal achievement, a uniquely crafted structure. Meihuizen's book helps demonstrate how each piece of autobiographical writing under consideration in it (works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee) discovers a unique form.
Other form:Print version: Meihuizen, Nicholas. Achieving autobiographical form. Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, 2016 9789004311039

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