If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any
writing outside the realm of ?autobiography
The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to
include:
- developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major
theoretical issues and concepts
- different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to
memoirs and diaries
- uses of the genre in their historical and cultural
contexts
- major autobiographical writers including St Augustine, Bunyan,
Boswell, Rousseau and Wordsworth, alongside non-canonical
autobiographies by women
- twentieth-century autobiography including women's writing,
black and postcolonial writing, and personal criticism
- a new chapter on narrative and new material examining recent
trends in autobiography such as blogs, the popularity of literary
memoirs and recent developments in theory on testimonial
writing.
Combining theoretical discussion with thought-provoking readings
of major texts, this is the ideal introduction to the study of a
fascinating genre.
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