Rise of the Memoir

Zusatztext The Rise of the Memoir, will be greeted with resounding applause. Informationen zum Autor Alex Zwerdling is Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext A study of the rise of the memoir through an exploration of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Gosse,Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Zusammenfassung A study of the rise of the memoir through an exploration of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Gosse,Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Memoir as Project and Product 1: Rousseau and the Art of Secular Confession 2: Inventing the Family Memoir 3: Mastering the Memoir 4: Orwell s Reticence and the Need to Bear Witness 5: Remembering in Stages 6: Primo Levi s Recursive Memory 7: Imagining the Facts in Kingston s Memoirs

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alex Zwerdling, Alex (Professor of English Zwerdling, Zwerdling Alex
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.12.2016
• EAN: 9780198755784
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875578-4
• Seiten: 252
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Romanhafte Biographien; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Memoirs, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs