Borderlines : autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing /
Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn.
Borderlines : autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing / Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir. - 1 online resource (294 pages) - Postmodern studies ; 33 . - Postmodern Studies 33. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Autobiography and Fiction -- Memory and the Autobiographical Process / The Use of Narrative in Autobiography / Gender and Fiction in Women's Autobiographical Writing / Autobiography and Journeys Between Cultures / Biography in Autobiography -- Photographs in Autobiography -- Postmodernism and Borderlines -- Bibliography -- Index. Lillian Hellman , Georges Perec and Paul Auster -- Suzannah Lessard , Peter Handke and Jenny Diski -- Janet Frame and Marie Cardinal -- Eva Hoffman , Michael Ondaatje and Kyoko Mori --
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Borderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdóttir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography’s relationship to postmodernism by investigating themes such as memory and crossing cultural divides, the use of photographs in autobiography and the role of narrative in life-writing. This work is of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, postmodernism and contemporary life-writing.
9789401201063
10.1163/9789401201063 DOI
Autobiography.
Autobiographical fiction--Technique.
Prose literature--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
PN56.A89 / G83 2003
809.93592
Borderlines : autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing / Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir. - 1 online resource (294 pages) - Postmodern studies ; 33 . - Postmodern Studies 33. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Autobiography and Fiction -- Memory and the Autobiographical Process / The Use of Narrative in Autobiography / Gender and Fiction in Women's Autobiographical Writing / Autobiography and Journeys Between Cultures / Biography in Autobiography -- Photographs in Autobiography -- Postmodernism and Borderlines -- Bibliography -- Index. Lillian Hellman , Georges Perec and Paul Auster -- Suzannah Lessard , Peter Handke and Jenny Diski -- Janet Frame and Marie Cardinal -- Eva Hoffman , Michael Ondaatje and Kyoko Mori --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Borderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdóttir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography’s relationship to postmodernism by investigating themes such as memory and crossing cultural divides, the use of photographs in autobiography and the role of narrative in life-writing. This work is of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, postmodernism and contemporary life-writing.
9789401201063
10.1163/9789401201063 DOI
Autobiography.
Autobiographical fiction--Technique.
Prose literature--History and criticism.
Postmodernism (Literature)
PN56.A89 / G83 2003
809.93592