Understanding our selves
Subtitle: the dangerous art of biography
By: Susan Tridgell.
Series: European connections,; v. 12
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Biography as a literary form.; Self in literature.
Description: "Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single person's life and its tendency to delve ever more deeply into that person's inner, private experience, though these tendencies seem to have only increased biography's popularity. To date, however, biography has been a rarely studied literary form. Little serious attention has been given to the light biographies can shed on philosophical problems, such as the intertwining of knowledge and power, or the ways in which we can understand lives, or terms like 'the self'."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.