Author: Folkenflik, Robert; editor:
Title: The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 272 pp. Minor rubbing, some page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contains 11 papers. Includes: R. Folkenflik "Introduction: The Institution of Autobiography"; J. Sturrock "Theory versus Autobiography"; J. Bruner " The Autobiographical Process"; J. Watson "Toward an Anti-Metaphysics of Autobiography"; L.H. Peterson "Institutionalizing Women's Autobiography: 19th-Century Editors & the Shaping of an Autobiographical Tradition"; L. Barrett "Self-Knowledge, Law & African American Autobiography: Lucy A. Delaney's 'From the Darkness Cometh the Light' "; G.M. Padilla "The Mexican Immigrant as *: The (de)Formation of Mexican Immigrant Life Story";B.D. Metcalf "What Happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's 'Labbaik' "; R.J. Porter "'In Me the Solitary Sublimity': Posturing & the Collapse of Romantic Will in Benjamin Robert Haydon"; R. Paulson "Hogarth's Self- Representation"; R. Folkenflik "The Self as Other".

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Autobiographical, Literature, Critical Theory, Authorship, , ,