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- catalog abstract "The function of autobiography in contributing new literary voices, new historical perspectives, and new cultural awareness cannot be underestimated. In this survey of the genre, Professor James Goodwin establishes the importance of autobiography to both literature and social history while undertaking careful examinations of several significant words in the field. His close readings focus on works from the United States and France, two nations whose political revolutions greatly shaped modern autobiography. In a comprehensive overview chapter, Professor Goodwin examines the genre's characteristics and the scope of its complex history, charting important contributions of philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences along the way. The chapters that follow discuss the process of self-inquiry by Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Gertrude Stein, Michel de Montaigne, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others. In these original, in-depth analyses, Goodwin evaluates such diverse topics as the American success paradigm, the relationship between literacy and liberation in African-American society, the use of the third person in autobiography, and the importance of the genre in the emergence of cultures and social groups traditionally confined to minority status. Finally, the comprehensive bibliographic essay surveys recent criticism and theory on the genre, presenting approaches ranging from literary history to gender issues and concepts of subjectivity.".
- catalog contributor b6523292.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Autobiography: an overview of the genre -- Franklin's Autobiography and the American mythos of success -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave: literacy and liberation in African-American autobiography -- The autobiographies of Gertrude Stein: questions of self -- Montaigne's Essays, Rousseau's Confessions, Sartre's Words: language and self -- Jean Genet, The Thief's journal and Violette Leduc, La Batarde: autobiography and L'Ecrivain maudit.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-170) and index.".
- catalog description "The function of autobiography in contributing new literary voices, new historical perspectives, and new cultural awareness cannot be underestimated. In this survey of the genre, Professor James Goodwin establishes the importance of autobiography to both literature and social history while undertaking careful examinations of several significant words in the field. His close readings focus on works from the United States and France, two nations whose political revolutions greatly shaped modern autobiography. In a comprehensive overview chapter, Professor Goodwin examines the genre's characteristics and the scope of its complex history, charting important contributions of philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences along the way. The chapters that follow discuss the process of self-inquiry by Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Gertrude Stein, Michel de Montaigne, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others. In these original, in-depth analyses, Goodwin evaluates such diverse topics as the American success paradigm, the relationship between literacy and liberation in African-American society, the use of the third person in autobiography, and the importance of the genre in the emergence of cultures and social groups traditionally confined to minority status. Finally, the comprehensive bibliographic essay surveys recent criticism and theory on the genre, presenting approaches ranging from literary history to gender issues and concepts of subjectivity.".
- catalog extent "xx, 175 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Autobiography.".
- catalog identifier "0805709541 (hardcover : alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Autobiography.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in literary themes and genres ; no. 2".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
- catalog relation "Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "808/.06692 20".
- catalog subject "Autobiography Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "CT25 .G6 1993".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Self in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Autobiography: an overview of the genre -- Franklin's Autobiography and the American mythos of success -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave: literacy and liberation in African-American autobiography -- The autobiographies of Gertrude Stein: questions of self -- Montaigne's Essays, Rousseau's Confessions, Sartre's Words: language and self -- Jean Genet, The Thief's journal and Violette Leduc, La Batarde: autobiography and L'Ecrivain maudit.".
- catalog title "Autobiography : the self made text / James Goodwin.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".