| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 268 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. A Clutch of Brothers: Alterity and Autothanatography -- I: Autobiography Interrupted. Developments in Character: "The Children's Punishment" and "The Broken Comb" -- Regard for the Other: Embarrassment in the Quatrième promenade -- The Shape before the Mirror: Autobiography and the Dandy in Baudelaire -- II: Writing Death, with Regard to the Other. Hospitality in Autobiography: Levinas chez De Quincey -- Eating with the Other in Les Paradis artificiels -- Secrets Can Be Murder: How to Write the Secret in De Profundis |
| Summary |
This work focuses on autothanatography, the writing of one's death. The study also argues that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to its death |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 fast |
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De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 fast |
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 fast |
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Authors -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Autobiography.
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Other (Philosophy) in literature.
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Self in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Death in literature.
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Autobiographies as Topic
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autobiography (genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Authors -- Biography
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Autobiography
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Death in literature
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Other (Philosophy) in literature
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Self in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009008224 |
| ISBN |
9780823235575 |
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0823235572 |
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9780823246762 |
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0823246760 |
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9780823230907 |
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0823230902 |
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9780823230914 |
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0823230910 |
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9786612699108 |
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6612699108 |
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