Self impression: life-writing, autobiografiction, and the forms of modern literature

Self Impression explores the fascinating ways in which writers from the 1870sto the 1930s - including Pater, Ruskin, Proust, Joyce, Stein, Pound, and Woolf - experimented with forms of life-writing. It proposes a new relation between autobiography and fiction in the period and a radically innovative literary history of Modernism. INDICE: Part I: Modern Ironisations of Auto/Biography and the Emergenceof Autobiografiction: Victorian and fin-de-siècle Precursors; 1: Im/personality: The Imaginary Portraits of Walter Pater; 2: Aesthetic Auto/biography: Ruskin and Proust; 3: Pseudonymity, Third-personality, and Anonymity as disturbances in fin-de-siècle auto/biography; 4: Autobiografiction: Stephen Reynolds andA. C. Benson; 5: Auto/biografiction: Counterfeit Lives: A Taxonomy of Displacements of Fiction towards Life-Writing; 6: Literary Impressionism and Impressionist Autobiographies: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford; Part II: Modernist Auto/biografiction; 7: Heteronymity I: Imaginary Authorship and Imaginary Autobiography: Pessoa, Joyce, Svevo; 8: Heteronymity II: Taxonomies of Fictional Creativity: Joyce (continued) and Stein; 9: Auto/biographese and Auto/biografiction in Verse: Ezra Pound and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; 10: Satirical Auto/biografiction: Richard Aldington and Wyndham Lewis; 11: Woolf, Bloomsbury, the 'New Biography', and the New Auto/biografiction; 12: After-Lives: Postmodern Experiments in Meta-Auto/biografiction: Sartre, Nabokov, Lessing, Byatt; Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-19-957976-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 608
• Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés