| Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Nalbantian, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312172893 ISBN-13: 9780312172893 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1994 Annotation: Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining Proust, Joyce, and Woolf, with Nin in their wake, Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterized by common aesthetics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.45" W x 8.48" (0.60 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in their wake - Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterised by a common aesthetics. She discovers in these writings a threshold of artistic transformation beyond the identification of biographical authenticity. |