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Self impression [electronic resource] : life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature / Max Saunders

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Saunders, Max, 1903-1983
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 563 pages) : illustrations
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I MODERN IRONIZATIONS OF AUTO/BIOGRAPHY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AUTOBIOGRAFICTION: VICTORIAN AND FIN DE SIECLE PRECURSORS -- 1.Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater -- 2.Aesthetic Auto/biography Rusking and Proust -- 3.Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as Disturbances in fin de siecle Auto/biography: `Mark Rutherford', George Gissing, Edmund Gosse and Others -- 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 -- pt. 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: Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington -- 11.Woolf, Bloomsbury, the `New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction -- 12.After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, Byatt.
Summary
Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with forms of life-writing such as biography, autobiography, memoir, diary and journal for the purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from the late 19th century and provides a fresh look at turn-of-the-century literature.
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9780191722882 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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