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Self Impression - Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Hardcover)
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Self Impression - Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Hardcover)
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'I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I
like out of what I was.' Paul Valery, Moi.
Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a
rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of
European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and
central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders
explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the
1930s experimented with forms of life-writing - biography,
autobiography, memoir, diary, journal - increasingly for the
purposes of fiction. He identifies a wave of new hybrid forms from
the late nineteenth century and uses the term 'autobiografication'
- discovered in a surprisingly early essay of 1906 - to provide a
fresh perspective on turn-of-the-century literature, and to propose
a radically new literary history of Modernism.
Saunders offers a taxonomy of the extraordinary variety of
experiments with life-writing, demonstrating how they arose in the
nineteenth century as the pressures of secularization and
psychological theory disturbed the categories of biography and
autobiography, in works by authors such as Pater, Ruskin, Proust,
'Mark Rutherford', George Gissing, and A. C. Benson. He goes on to
look at writers experimenting further with autobiografiction as
Impressionism turns into Modernism., juxtaposing detailed and
vivacious readings of key Modernist texts by Joyce, Stein, Pound,
and Woolf, with explorations of the work of other authors -
including H. G. Wells, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford,
and Wyndham Lewis - whose experiments with life-writing forms are
no less striking. The book concludes with a consideration of the
afterlife of these fascinating experiments in the postmodern
literature of Nabokov, Lessing, and Byatt.
Self Impression sheds light on a number of significant but
under-theorized issues; the meanings of 'autobiographical', the
generic implications of literary autobiography, and the intriguing
relation between autobiography and fiction in the period.
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