This addition to the acclaimed New Critical Idiom series offers a wide-ranging introduction to the study of autobiography and a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day.
outlines the main theoretical issues and concepts of this arealooks at the different forms from confessions to narratives to memoirs to diariesconsiders the major writers of this traditionlooks at the ideological assumptions about the nature of the self.
Autobiography follows the important developments in autobiographical criticism in the last thirty years, paying particular attention to psychoanalytic, poststructualist and feminist approaches. Autobiography:
- ISBN10 6610354545
- ISBN13 9786610354542
- Publish Date 22 March 2001 (first published 1 January 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Group
- Format eBook
- Language English