| Albert E. Stone - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 372 pages
...an act produces its consequences," Paul de Man writes, "but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...determined in all its aspects, by the resources of its medium?"33 Practitioners of surfiction, transfiction, faction, or the new nonfiction novel, as... | |
| Paul de Man - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 344 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium? And since the mimesis here assumed to be operative is one mode of figuration among others, does the... | |
| Ramón Saldívar - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 268 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...all its aspects, by the resources of his medium?" (920). Now, as is typical of de Man's inquiries in all of his essays, there is a lot at stake in this... | |
| Marian Zwerling Sugano - Poetry - 1992 - 300 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium? And since the mimesis here assumed to be operative is one mode of figuration among others, does the... | |
| Keith Busby - Social Science - 1992 - 273 pages
...autobiographie . . . est une auto- interprétation" (p. 2S8), while Paul de Man goes so far as to suggest that "the autobiographical project may itself produce...technical demands of self-portraiture and thus determined ... by the resources of his medium" (p. 69). pictorial details leads the reader to create an idealized... | |
| Robert Folkenflik - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 292 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...determined in all its aspects, by the resources of its medium?"11 Haydon's life was partly shaped by the achievement of the writing, in that autobiography... | |
| Sandra Adell - African Americans - 1994 - 196 pages
...engaged in the autobiographical project is governed. He asks, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium? And since the mimesis here assumed to be operative is one mode of figuration among others, does the... | |
| Forest Pyle - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 240 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium? And since the mimesis here assumed to be operative is one mode of figuration among others, does the... | |
| Ilan Katz - Social Science - 1996 - 222 pages
...the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce...the writer does is in fact governed by the technical demand of self-portraiture and thus determined, in all its aspects, by the resources of its medium.... | |
| Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...itself produce and determine the life and that whatever the writer does is in fact governed by the demands of self-portraiture and thus determined, in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium?3" What results from such an awareness, as de Man describes it, is a double perspective, a trompe... | |
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