Autobiographical quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth

How reliable is the history that human memory produces? Does the self, creating for others, become other? Elizabeth de Mijolla approaches these questions using a descriptive, nonprescriptive approach to the writings of four famous autobiographers: the early Church Father Augustine, the Renaissance e...

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1. Verfasser: De Mijolla, Elizabeth (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville u.a. Univ. Press of Virginia 1994
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Zusammenfassung:How reliable is the history that human memory produces? Does the self, creating for others, become other? Elizabeth de Mijolla approaches these questions using a descriptive, nonprescriptive approach to the writings of four famous autobiographers: the early Church Father Augustine, the Renaissance essayist Montaigne, the French Romantic philosopher Rousseau, and the English Romantic poet Wordsworth
Exploring theories of memory, time, and autobiographical design and disorder, she argues against the imperative of traditional mimesis and for the variety of autobiographical renderings that personal memory permits
Autobiographers writing rational retrospective narratives may depict their lives in accepted literary designs. But these designs can be undone by the inclusion of irrational reveries, varying visions, or other obscure memories. And these incongruities impose independent meanings upon the autobiographical stories
Beschreibung:IX, 185 S.
ISBN:081391468X

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