Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Hardcover

Olney, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226628167 ISBN 13: 9780226628165

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1999

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Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

"This is an elegant work of scholarship." --Jason Berry, Chicago Tribune

"Examines how the fascinating, reciprocal relationship between memory and narrative has evolved over the course of 17 centuries. . . . Olney's work is a valuable companion to his subjects' primary texts." --Booklist

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James Olney is the Voorhies Professor of English and professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, most recently The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is also coeditor of The Southern Review.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226628167
• ISBN 13: 9780226628165
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 446
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