Being For Myself Alone
Subtitle: Origins Of Jewish Autobiography (Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture) (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780804751575
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Jewish; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hebrew; Yiddish; Literary Criticism & Collections / Jewish; History and criticism; Autobiography; Biography; Jewish authors; Jewish literature
First sentence: The study of autobiography, a relatively recent field, has been bedevilled from the onset by the definitional problem.