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Memory and Narrative
James Olney
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Description for Memory and Narrative
Paperback. Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form. The writings of St. Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and the work of sculptor, Albert Giacometti. Num Pages: 446 pages, 2 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 592.
Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound and disruptive changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and finds its momentary conclusion in the whole body of Samuel Beckett's work. In works such as the Confessions and the Trinity Augustine laid down a theory of life-writing that has survived to the present day. Rousseau's great innovation was to turn the focus of life-writing ... Read more
Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound and disruptive changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and finds its momentary conclusion in the whole body of Samuel Beckett's work. In works such as the Confessions and the Trinity Augustine laid down a theory of life-writing that has survived to the present day. Rousseau's great innovation was to turn the focus of life-writing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
446
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
591g
Number of Pages
446
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226628172
SKU
V9780226628172
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About James Olney
James Olney is the Voorhies Professor of English and professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, most recently The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is also coeditor of The Southern Review.
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