| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Part One: The Autobiographical Genre; Introduction; 1. The Critical Debate; 2. Autobiography in Verse and in Prose; Part Two: The Difficult Sixties; Introduction; 3. Seamus Heaney and Jaime Gil de Biedma; 4. Thom Gunn and Carlos Barral; Concluding Notes; Appendix; Bibliography |
| Summary |
The volume traces the founding critical theories of the autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments, which, since the Sixties and the essays of Roy Pascal and Jean Starobinski, have had a greater and greater influence. It offers - in contrast to the essential, and by now classic, definition of Philippe Lejeune - an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography, recognizing poetic writing that has the extraordinary ability to say what "the mortal language does not say," to quote Leopardi. The works of Seamus Hean |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
| Subject |
Autobiographical poetry, English -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Autobiographical poetry, Spanish -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Autobiography in literature.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Linguistics.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Autobiographical poetry, English.
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Autobiography in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443874847 |
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1443874841 |
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