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Zusatztext wide-ranging and consequential new account of British literature from 1870 to 1930 ... In modernism, as Saunders demonstrates in impressive detail, we may find an astonishing variety of experimental interactions between biography, autobiography, fiction, and criticism ... With this vast body of evidence, quoted generously and treated expertly, Saunders makes a compelling case for reading modernism as a discourse of im/personality. [One of] two exceedingly good books - stimulating in their arguments, rich in attention to literary and scholarly detail, and engagingly written. Informationen zum Autor Max Saunders is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English and Co-Director at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London. Klappentext Self Impression explores the fascinating ways in which writers from the 1870s to the 1930s - including Pater, Ruskin, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf - experimented with forms of life-writing. It proposes a new relation between autobiography and fiction in the period and a radically innovative literary history of Modernism. Zusammenfassung Self Impression explores the fascinating ways in which writers from the 1870s to the 1930s - including Pater, Ruskin, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf - experimented with forms of life-writing. It proposes a new relation between autobiography and fiction in the period and a radically innovative literary history of Modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Modern Ironisations of Auto/Biography and the Emergence of Autobiografiction: Victorian and fin-de-siÿcle Precursors 1: Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater 2: Aesthetic Auto/biography: Ruskin and Proust 3: Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as disturbances in fin-de-siÿcle auto/biography 4: Autobiografiction: Stephen Reynolds and A. C. Benson 5: Auto/biografiction: Counterfeit Lives: A Taxonomy of Displacements of Fiction towards Life-Writing 6: Literary Impressionism and Impressionist Autobiographies: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford Part II: Modernist Auto/biografiction 7: Heteronymity I: Imaginary Authorship and Imaginary Autobiography: Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo 8: Heteronymity II: Taxonomies of Fictional Creativity: Joyce (continued) and Stein 9: Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in Verse: Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 10: Satirical Auto/biografiction: Richard Aldington and Wyndham Lewis 11: Woolf, Bloomsbury, the 'New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction 12: After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, Byatt Conclusion ...
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- Part I: Modern Ironisations of Auto/Biography and the Emergence of Autobiografiction: Victorian and fin-de-siècle Precursors
- 1: Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater
- 2: Aesthetic Auto/biography: Ruskin and Proust
- 3: Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as disturbances in fin-de-siècle auto/biography
- 4: Autobiografiction: Stephen Reynolds and A. C. Benson
- 5: Auto/biografiction: Counterfeit Lives: A Taxonomy of Displacements of Fiction towards Life-Writing
- 6: Literary Impressionism and Impressionist Autobiographies: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford
- Part II: Modernist Auto/biografiction
- 7: Heteronymity I: Imaginary Authorship and Imaginary Autobiography: Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo
- 8: Heteronymity II: Taxonomies of Fictional Creativity: Joyce (continued) and Stein
- 9: Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in Verse: Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
- 10: Satirical Auto/biografiction: Richard Aldington and Wyndham Lewis
- 11: Woolf, Bloomsbury, the 'New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction
- 12: After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, Byatt
- Conclusion
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very wide-ranging and intellectually stimulating ... Conspicuous in its originality ... an outstanding contribution The Pater Newsletter
