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Tracing the development of autobiography in French this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny the self as textual construct the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and people.Read More

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    This important book uses close readings of sixteen key French autobiographers to provide a major contribution to theoretical discussions of the genre. Sheringham traces the development of autobiography in French from Rousseau, exploring the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the relation to the reader, the problem of memory, and the influence of other texts and people.

  • 0198158432
  • 9780198158431
  • Michael Sheringham
  • 16 September 1993
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
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