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Autobiography: Toward a Poetics of Experience

Autobiography: Toward a Poetics of Experience

Gunn, Janet Varner

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0812278348
ISBN13: 9780812278347
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Mar 29 1982
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Autobiography, Gunn argues, must be reunderstood as a cultural act of reading the self, not as a private act of writing the self. Moreover, the self that is read (both by the autobiographer and the reader of autobiography) is the displayed self, not the hidden self--the self that appears in the world and can be experienced, and thereby realized, by others. Drawing on narrative theory, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, Gunn locates the literary features of autobiography in the larger anthropological context of what she calls the autobiographical situation.

An elegantly constructed interdisciplinary analysis, this book renders the hybrid genre of autobiography freshly problematic.

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