Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women’s autobiographical writing, Françoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by autho

This book traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self - the self that is made of memories of the personal pa

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For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to

DIVAn anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research./div