The Complex Image: Faith and Method in American Autobiography

by Joseph Fichtelberg

In The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies. He reexamines the problem of the autobiographical subject from a poststructuralist perspective, and he places that problem in the context of American culture. As a framework for his unique study, he offers a reading of Ecce Homo that argues that Nietzsche's autobiographical "I" is both buried in and created...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281462
• ISBN13: 9780812281460
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary