AutobiographyThis addition to the acclaimed New Critical Idiom series offers a wide-ranging introduction to the study of autobiography and a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the present day.
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already argued attempt Augustine 1961 Augustine's auto autobiographical text autobiographical writing autobiography becomes biography body Boswell Bunyan Camera Lucida childhood claim Confessions cultural DECONSTRUCTION diary discourse experience Felman feminine feminism feminist criticism fiction fragmented Freud gender genre Gilroy Grace Abounding Hester Thrale Hurston ibid identity ideological implication important individual interpretation Jacques Derrida Jacques Lacan Johnson Julia Kristeva Karl Weintraub Lacan language literary lives Louis Althusser meaning memory Miller mirror stage mother Naipaul narrative nature never notion offer Ondaatje origin paradoxically particular past Paul Gilroy Perec personal criticism perspective photograph political position poststructuralism poststructuralist present problem Probyn prosopopoeia psychoanalysis question reader relation represent rhetoric Roland Barthes role Romantic Rousseau Sean Burke seen selfhood sexual difference Sigmund Freud simply social speak Steedman story suggests theoretical theory Thrale tradition transcendent trauma truth turns unconscious understanding unified woman women Woolf words Wordsworth