Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Autobiography
Author(s): Anderson Linda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415572149
Pages: 166 Pages
Publication Date: 11/26/2010
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Category: Literary Studies: General