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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention - Eakin, Paul John
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Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of ...

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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691631530

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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691601939

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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention 1988, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691014456

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Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention 1985, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691066400

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