Title: On autobiography /
Authors: Lejeune, Philippe,; Eakin, Paul John.
Date: 1989
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Physical description: xxviii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Pt. I: Autobiography: theory of the genre and analysis of discourse -- The autobiographical pact -- Autobiography in the third person -- The ironic narrative of childhood: Vallès -- The order of narrative in Sartre's Les Mots -- Looking at a self-portrait -- The autobiographical pact (bis) -- Pt. II: Autobiography, history, and contemporary civilization -- Autobiography and literary history -- Autobiography and social history in the nineteenth century -- The autobiography of those who do not write -- Teaching people to write their life story.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Authors, French--Biography--History and criticism.; Autobiography.