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French Autobiography: Devices and Desires - Rousseau to Perec (Hardcover)
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French Autobiography: Devices and Desires - Rousseau to Perec (Hardcover)
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This is the first full-scale study of French autobiography. Whereas
earlier critics have engaged primarily in theoretical discussion of
the genre, or in analyses of individual works or authors, Michael
Sheringham identifies sixteen key autobiographical texts and
situates them in the context of an evolving set of challenges and
problems. Informed by a sophisticated awareness of recent
theoretical debates, Sheringham conceives autobiography as a
distinctively open form of writing, perpetually engaged with
different forms of `otherness'. Manifestations of the Other in the
autobiographical process - from the reader, who incarnates other
people, to ideology, against which individual truth must be pitted,
to the potential otherness of memory itself - are traced through a
scrutiny of the `devices and desires' at work in a range of texts
from Rousseau's Confessions, to Stendhal's Vie de Henry Brulard and
Sartre's Les Mots. Other writers examined include Chateaubriand,
Gide, Green, Leiris, Leduc, Gorz, Barthes, Perec, and Sarraute.
French Autobiography: Devices and Desires represents both the first
attempt to assemble a canon in one volume and a strikingly original
contribution to the theory of autobiography.
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