Inscribed Identities: Life Writing as Self-Realization

By: Pittock, Murray

Book Overview

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine's Confessions, Rousseau's book of the same title, and Salvador Dal 's paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by K te Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367077086
• ISBN13: 9780367077082
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"