Description |
ix, 195 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Making the best sense of lives -- Wang Shih-Min's "self-account" : an exemplary life -- Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes and the limits of life narrative -- Nietzsche's Ecce homo : inescapable frameworks of the good -- Narratives of supersession : Augustine's Confessions -- Narratives of supersession : Wordsworth's Prelude -- Narrative of authenticity : Gosse's Father and son -- Authenticity and recognition : Steedman's Landscape for a good woman -- Difference and its discontents -- Common humanity and its limits : Raimond Gaita's Romulus, my father -- Seamus Heaney : recognizing the other -- Coetzee's Boyhood : toward an aesthetics of life narrative |
Summary |
The author states that to some extent his line of argument may be seen as part of the turn to ethics in literary studies, and more recently in studies of life writing. --introd |
Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index |
Subject |
Self in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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LC no. |
2006039786 |
ISBN |
9780801445613 cloth alkaline paper |
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