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Author : Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803215924
"Pseudo-Memoir explores the twentieth-century return of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century"--
Author : Rochelle Tobias
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496227607
Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Łukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot.
Author : Arthur F. Saint-Aubin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611461961
This book examines the memoir of Toussaint Louverture—a former slave, general in the French army, and leader of the Haitian Revolution—and the memoir of his son, Isaac.
Author : Andrew Wachtel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:C2926209
Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198863120
"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked in a struggle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. However, the collection also brings the reader back to the beginnings of Holmes' career, involving a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country house, and a first encounter with Holmes' older brother Mycroft, of whom Holmes says, "If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived". This collection includes some of the detective's greatest cases, such as 'Silver Blaze' and 'The Naval Treaty', and even one case which Holmes fails to solve. Edited with an introduction by Jarlath Killeen, this volume examines Holmes as a safeguard against social breakdown and chaos, as well as an agent of justice and goodness against the forces of evil. It also situates the collection in the growth of life writing in the period, and explores the ways in which Holmes became increasingly 'real' to readers as more details about his personality and biography are revealed in the stories. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Ekaterina R. Daškova
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822316218
"This memoir tell the story of a woman who at age eighteen played an important role in the coup that brought Catherine the Great to the throne. The relationship between these two women, often tense, is a central theme throughout this story. Dashkova, occupying the highly unusual position of both stateswoman and mother, also reveals her own path between the demands and limitations of the private and public spheres of her society. She provides a view of the expectations of Russian aristocratic women, the possibilities available to them, and the ways in which gender roles were conceived in the eighteenth century."--[book cover].
Author : Marie Mancini,Hortense Mancini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226502809
The memoirs of Hortense (1646–1699) and of Marie (1639–1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their lifetimes. Both unhappily married—Marie had also fled the aftermath of her failed affair with the king—the sisters chose to leave their husbands for life on the road, a life quite rare for women of their day. Through their writings, the Mancinis sought to rehabilitate their reputations and reclaim the right to define their public images themselves, rather than leave the stories of their lives to the intrigues of the court—and to their disgruntled ex-husbands. First translated in 1676 and 1678 and credited largely to male redactors, the two memoirs reemerge here in an accessible English translation that chronicles the beginnings of women’s rights to personal independence within the confines of an otherwise circumscribed early modern aristocratic society.
Author : Heidi L. Pennington
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826274069
This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text. Through close readings of Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and other well-known examples of the subgenre, Pennington shows how the Victorian fictional autobiography subtly but persistently illustrates that all identities are fictions. Despite the subgenre’s radical implications regarding the nature of personal identity, fictional autobiographies were popular in their own time and continue to inspire devotion in readers. This study sheds new light on what makes this subgenre so compelling, up to and including in the present historical moment of precipitous social and technological change. As we continue to grapple with the existential question of what determines “who we really are,” this book explores the risks and rewards of embracing conscious acts of fictional self-production in an unstable world.
Author : Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027277602
This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift. Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.
Author : Patricia Francis Cholakian
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137357
"This book is an exploration of six neglected and under-valued self-narratives composed in the period stretching from the reign of Henri IV through that of Louis XIV. Cholakian reads these self-narratives as gestures of political resistance to the marginalization of women during the ancient regime."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Vivienne Mylne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : French fiction
ISBN : 0719001749
Author : Nicolae Alexandru Virastau
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004459557
In this book, Nicolae Alexandru Virastau offers an enlightening account of the origins of one of Europe’s most influential autobiographical traditions.
Author : James Olney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400856312
Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : J. S. Bromley
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1970-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521075246
The rise of Great Britain and Russia is the focus of this particular volume of The New Cambridge Modern History.
Author : Aleksandr Vladimirovich Sobolev
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821884874
Relying on the known two-term quasiclassical asymptotic formula for the trace of the function $f(A)$ of a Wiener-Hopf type operator $A$ in dimension one, in 1982 H. Widom conjectured a multi-dimensional generalization of that formula for a pseudo-differential operator $A$ with a symbol $a(\mathbf{x}, \boldsymbol{\xi})$ having jump discontinuities in both variables. In 1990 he proved the conjecture for the special case when the jump in any of the two variables occurs on a hyperplane. The present paper provides a proof of Widom's Conjecture under the assumption that the symbol has jumps in both variables on arbitrary smooth bounded surfaces.