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" We assume that life produces the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce and determine the life and that whatever the writer does is in fact governed... "
Secret Selves: Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography - Page 12
by Oliver S. Buckton - 1998 - 270 pages
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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity ...

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...
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The Rhetoric of Romanticism

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...
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Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference

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...
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The Poetics of the Occasion: Mallarmé and the Poetry of Circumstance

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...
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Correspondances.

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...
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The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation

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...
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Double-consciousness/double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-century ...

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...
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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism

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...
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The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed ...

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....
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Resemblance & Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

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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