Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre

by Patrick Riley

Book Overview

What happens, asks Patrick Riley, when a life transformed becomes an autobiography? What is the relationship between the subjective upheaval of conversion and the representation of character? Who, then, is this "self" writing the narrative of a life? Thinking of conversion as a radical turning point or fulcrum on which incompatible configurations of character are precariously balanced, Riley examines both historically and tropologically the paradoxes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922925
• ISBN13: 9780813922928
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 14.7" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher