The made-up self
Subtitle: impersonation in the personal essay
By: by Carl H. Klaus.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587299131; 9781587299469
Subjects: Essays -- Authorship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "person" in a personal essay; title: Evocations of consciousness; title: Montaigne on "Montaigne": toward a poetics of self; title: The mind and the mind's idiosyncrasy: ideas of consciousness in the personal essay; title: Discontinuous: form of consciousness; title: Evocations of personality; title: Voices on voice: the singular "I" and the chameleon "I"; title: Elia: pseudonymous self extraordinaire; title: Never to be yourself and yet always: Virginia Woolf on the essayist's problem; title: Personae and culture; title: Difference and "I": cultural consciousness in the personal essay; title: Orwell's "A hanging": politics and the first-person singular/plural; title: Personae and personal experience; title: Illness and "I": malady in the personal essay; title: Days into essays: a self for all seasons.