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Writing the Self - Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self (Paperback, New)
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Writing the Self - Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self (Paperback, New)
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The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered
Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the
Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in
the works of Montaigne. In the seventeenth century, philosophers
such as Descartes formulated notions of selfhood that did not
require a divine foundation; in the next century, Hume grew
skeptical of the self's very existence. Ideas of the self have
changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today
regard it as at best a mental construct. First-person genres such
as diaries and memoirs have provided an outlet for self-expression.
Protestant diaries replaced the Catholic confessional, but secular
diaries such as Pepys's may reveal yet more about the self. After
Richardson, novels competed with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of
self-expression, though memoirs survived and continue to thrive,
while the diary has found a new incarnation in the personal blog.
Writing the Self narrates the intertwined histories of the self and
of self-expression through first-person literature. >
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