French Autobiography: Devices and Desires: Rousseau to Perec

By Michael Sheringham

This important book uses close readings of sixteen key French autobiographers to provide a major contribution to theoretical discussions of the genre. Sheringham traces the development of autobiography in French from Rousseau, exploring the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the relation to the reader, the problem of memory, and the influence of other texts and people.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198158432
• ISBN13: 9780198158431
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"