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Threads of Life (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with
their readers--questions like: To what extent was my life imposed
on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular
choices and actions, through the activity of my own will? Indeed,
the issue of the will is central to autobiographical writing, and
some of the greatest autobiographies give extended consideration to
the will--its nature; its powers; its limitations; the forms of
freedom, constraint, and expression it finds in various cultures;
its role in particular human lives.
In this new study, unprecedented in subject and scope, Richard
Freadman offers the first sustained account of how changing
theological, philosophical, and psychological accounts of the human
will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of
how autobiography in its turn has helped shape various
understandings of the will. Early chapters trace narrative
representations of the will from antiquity (the Greeks and
Augustine) to postmodernism (Derrida and Barthes), with particular
emphasis on late modernity's culture of the will. Later chapters
then present detailed and powerfully original readings of
autobiographical texts by Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, B. F.
Skinner, Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler,
Stephen Spender, and Diana Trilling.
Freadman's interdisciplinary approach to autobiography and the will
includes a theoretical defense of the view that autobiographers
are, in varying degrees, agents in their own texts. "Threads of
Life" argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted
attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now
deeply embedded in contemporarycultural discourse, need
reexamining. In this, he contends, 'reflective autobiography' has
an important part to play.
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