Patterns of Experience in Autobiography - Couverture souple

Egan, Susanna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807815810 ISBN 13 : 9780807815816

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1984

Synopsis

Egan asks why autobiographers use patterns -- such as myths of paradise and paradise lost, the journey, conversion, and confession -- taken from fiction to express personal experiences. She suggests that these stages of the written life derive from psychological imperatives that determine how the self and the world are perceived. She examines the autobiographical works of Rousseau, Wordsworth, George Moore, and Thomas Carlyle and the writings of William Hale White, De Quincey, and John Stuart Mill.

Originally published in 1984.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807815810
• ISBN 13: 9780807815816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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