Autobiography - Linda Anderson - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 2010 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

Description

If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of ?autobiography?? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: - developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts - different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to memoirs and diaries - uses of the genre in their historical and cultural contexts - major autobiographical writers including St Augustine, Bunyan, Boswell, Rousseau and Wordsworth, alongside non-canonical autobiographies by women - twentieth-century autobiography including women''s writing, black and postcolonial writing, and personal criticism - a new chapter on narrative and new material examining recent trends in autobiography such as blogs, the popularity of literary memoirs and recent developments in theory on testimonial writing. - - Combining theoretical discussion with thought-provoking readings of major texts, this is the ideal introduction to the study of a fascinating genre.