The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the First Person Singular

by John Sturrock and Sturrock John

The urge to autobiography reveals itself every day, in the stories we tell about ourselves. Literary autobiography is the most highly developed form of this universal activity of self-promotion, a kind of writing practised in the west over many centuries. In this major study of the western tradition, John Sturrock analyses the means by which more than twenty of the greatest literary autobiographers have gone about their task. The book concentrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521131634
• ISBN13: 9780521131636
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"