Achieving Autobiographical Form - A Twentieth Century Perspective

In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve singular forms. This is demonstrated in an examination of works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee.

About the author

Nicholas Meihuizen is a Professor of English at North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, South Africa. He is author of Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space (Rodopi, 1998), and Ordering Empire: The Poetry of Camões, Pringle, and Campbell (Peter Lang, 2007).

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Meihuizen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2016
• EAN: 9789004311039
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31103-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Costerus New
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies