Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography

by Paul John Eakin

Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068208
• ISBN13: 9780691068206
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"