Metaphors of self ; the meaning of autobiography.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olney, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [1972]
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Table of Contents:
  • A theory of autobiography: "my metaphysics ... my physics"
  • Montaigne: "a book consubstantial with its author"
  • Jung: "my personal myth"
  • Autobiography simplex: "et nous sommes tous du vulgaire": Fox: "I'll firk him!" ; Darwin: "observing and reasoning" ; Newman: "He asks what I mean" ; Mill: "an advantage of a quarter of a century"
  • Four quartets: "the pattern more complicated": "significant emotion" ; "move in measure, like a dancer" ; "folded in a single party"
  • Synthesis: "the correlative of being."