Literary Selves
Autobiography and Contemporary American Nonfiction
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ISBN-13:
9780313288258
Veröffentl:
1993
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
30.08.1993
Seiten:
168
Autor:
James N. Stull
Gewicht:
425 g
Format:
240x161x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Departing from previous discussions of literary nonfiction in terms of its being literature or journalism, this new study treats literary nonfiction as autobiography, examining a large body of work in terms of autobiographical theory. The collected works of six very different prominent literary journalists--John McPhee, Joe McGinniss, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Norman Mailer--are analyzed from literary, autobiographical, and cultural perspectives. Author James Stull explains how the complex, fully-rounded psychological and social self is crystalized in these works into a more encompassing statement of self-identification, which he calls a metaphor of self, a distinctive way an author presents a self and its world. Numerous other writers and critics are brought into the discussion, and the author provides an extensive reference bibliography.
The collected works of six prominent literary journalists--John McPhee, Joe McGinniss, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Norman Mailer--are analyzed in terms of autobiographical theory.
Introduction: Presentations of Self in Contemporary American NonfictionSelf and the Performance of Others: The Pastoral Vision of John McPheeJoe McGinniss' Fatal Vision: The Search for an Anti/Heroic SelfThe Cultural Gamesmanship of Tom WolfeThe Minimal Self: Joan Didion's Journalism of SurvivalHunter S. Thompson: A Ritual Reenactment of Deviant BehaviorThe Armies of the Night: Norman Mailer's Performing SelfConclusion: The Therapeutic and "Hidden" SelvesBibliographyIndex