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1The project for this issue started in a questioning about the possible bridges between poetry today and Romantic poetry. How to think beyond the now consensual but also constructed oppositions that helped the Modernists define themselves against their anxiety-inducing immediate predecessors? In the line of Marjorie Perloff’s 21st-Century Modernism, one is urged to this re-reading of the 19th and of the 20th and 21st centuries. Thus comes to be examined one of the major post-Romantic assessments of Romanticism which foregrounds the centrality of self and the imperialistic posture of the individual. Constructing anställda experience into collective wisdom and conferring general relevance to the self’s idiosyncrasies are some of the projects and processes underpinning the Romantic autobiographical poem from William Wordsworth’s Prelude to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Even if such an approach can be (and has been) argued and questioned, this supremacy of the
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The Style of Autobiography
Starobinski, Jean. "The Style of Autobiography". Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856312.73
Starobinski, J. (1980). The Style of Autobiography. In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical (pp. 73-83). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856312.73
Starobinski, J. 1980. The Style of Autobiography. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856312.73
Starobinski, Jean. "The Style of Autobiography" In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, 73-83. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856312.73
Starobinski J. The Style of Autobiography. In: Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1980. p.73-83. https://doi.org/10.1515/978140085631
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Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical [Course Book ed.] 9781400856312
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction
Conditions and Limits of Autobiography
Full of Life Now
The Style of Autobiography
Some Principles of Autobiography
Confessions and Autobiography
Recovering Literature's Lost Ground Through Autobiography
Autobiography and the Making of America
Black Autobiography: Life as the Death Weapon
Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography
Michel Leiris: Mazemaker
The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers
Some Versions of Memory/Some Versions of Bios: The Ontology of Autobiography
The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography
Eye for I: Making and Unmaking Autobiography in Film
Fictions of the Self: The End of Autobiography
Bibliography
Index
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Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical
Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Cr