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1 online resource (300 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Cover; Contents. |
| Summary |
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living and only eventually, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. |
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American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature. |
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20th century |
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
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Invention (Rhetoric) |
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History. |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, French. |
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eakin, Paul John. Fictions in Autobiography : Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400854790 (electronic book) |
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1400854792 (electronic book) |
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