Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography

by G. Thomas Couser

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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one's life is one's exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent congruence between the implicit ideology of the genre and that of the nation, autobiography has a special prestige in America. Aware of the recent critiques of the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019505833X

ISBN13:9780195058338

Release Date:November 1989

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.12 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Metaphysics Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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