Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature

by Max Saunders

Book Overview

'I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul Valery, Moi.

Modernism is often characterized as a movement of impersonality; a rejection of auto/biography. But most of the major works of European modernism and postmodernism engage in very profound and central ways with questions about life-writing. Max Saunders explores the ways in which modern writers from the 1870s to the 1930s experimented with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199579768
• ISBN13: 9780199579761
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"