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• catalog abstract ""Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to modify the life in the act of writing about it. Then, stepping out of his critical role, Porter ends each chapter with an autobiographical discussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under discussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12517738.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""Self-Same Songs constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, including Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. Porter offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and erudite, Porter focuses on the diverse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to modify the life in the act of writing about it.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-258) and index.".
• catalog description "The singer in the song: autobiography in The odyssey -- The pleasures of Nostos: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, memory -- Filling up the silent vacancy: Edward Gibbons' Autobiography -- Unspeakable practices, writable acts: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography -- The sorrows of autobiography: Somerset Maugham's The summing up -- Redemptive evasions: Edwin Muir's The story and the fable -- Autobiographical writing as death weapon: Thomas Bernhard's gathering evidence and Franz Kafka's Letter to his father -- Figuration and disfigurement: Herculine Barbin's Memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite -- Annulled selves: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's An accidental autobiography and Michel Leiris's Biffures -- Romantic posing: the life and death writing of Benjamin Robert Haydon -- "A serpent in the coils of a pythoness": self-dramatization in Eugene Delacroix's Journal -- conflict and incorporation: Edmund Gosse's Father and son -- My mother and myself: Edward Dahlberg's Because I was flesh -- Self and other is one flesh: double voicing in Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood, Ronald Fraser's In search of a past, and Howard and Arthur Waskow's Becoming brothers.".
• catalog description "Then, stepping out of his critical role, Porter ends each chapter with an autobiographical discussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under discussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xx, 272 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Self-same songs.".
• catalog identifier "0803237308 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0803287674 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Self-same songs.".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press,".
• catalog relation "Self-same songs.".
• catalog subject "809/.93542 21".
• catalog subject "Autobiography Authorship.".
• catalog subject "Autobiography.".
• catalog subject "CT25 .P665 2002".
• catalog subject "Report writing.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The singer in the song: autobiography in The odyssey -- The pleasures of Nostos: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, memory -- Filling up the silent vacancy: Edward Gibbons' Autobiography -- Unspeakable practices, writable acts: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography -- The sorrows of autobiography: Somerset Maugham's The summing up -- Redemptive evasions: Edwin Muir's The story and the fable -- Autobiographical writing as death weapon: Thomas Bernhard's gathering evidence and Franz Kafka's Letter to his father -- Figuration and disfigurement: Herculine Barbin's Memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite -- Annulled selves: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's An accidental autobiography and Michel Leiris's Biffures -- Romantic posing: the life and death writing of Benjamin Robert Haydon -- "A serpent in the coils of a pythoness": self-dramatization in Eugene Delacroix's Journal -- conflict and incorporation: Edmund Gosse's Father and son -- My mother and myself: Edward Dahlberg's Because I was flesh -- Self and other is one flesh: double voicing in Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood, Ronald Fraser's In search of a past, and Howard and Arthur Waskow's Becoming brothers.".
• catalog title "Self-same songs : autobiographical performances and reflections / Roger J. Porter.".
• catalog type "text".