Regard for the Other: Autothanatography in Rousseau, de Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde

by E.S. Burt

Book Overview

Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated representations of particular others and of the privileged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230910
• ISBN13: 9780823230914
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"