Format:
Online-Ressource (115 p)
ISBN:
9780415099752
Content:
Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the `missing persons - of auto/biography
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Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Untitled; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The possibilities of auto/ biography; Chapter 2 Lies, all lies; Chapter 3 Imperatives of deference; Chapter 4 Boys' tales; Chapter 5 Looking for daddy; Chapter 6 The imagined self: The impossibility of auto/ biography; Notes; References; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203009710
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415099752
Additional Edition:
Print version Missing Persons : The Impossibility of Auto/Biography
Language:
English
Keywords:
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