Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Olney, James

 
9780226628172: Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
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ISBN 10: 0226628175 ISBN 13: 9780226628172
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

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Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy, and found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.



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James Olney is the Voorhies Professor of English and professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, most recentlyThe Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is also coeditor ofThe Southern Review.

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Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding books in literary scholarship or criticism

Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy and, as Olney explains, found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

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Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding books in literary scholarship or criticism

Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy and, as Olney explains, found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226628175
ISBN 13 
9780226628172
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2
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