Portraits from life : modernist novelists and autobiography

What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist write...

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Auteur principal : Maunsell Jerome Boyd (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Portraits from life : modernist novelists and autobiography / Jerome Boyd Maunsell
Publié : Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-282 p.)
Contenu : The secret of my life: Joseph Conrad. A straight dive into the past: Henry James. For facts a most profound contempt: Ford Madox Ford. The life apart: Edith Wharton. Alive and kicking: H.G. Wells. You are never yourself to yourself: Gertrude Stein. My life being so difficult a one to live: Wyndham Lewis. Epiogue
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