Pilling - Autobiography And Imagination

Studies in Self-Scruting.Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The author argues that often the writer has shaped his life through his craft, coming to understand the pattern of his own existence through the formalism of language. In each case the writer stamps his personality on the work by mean of a distinctive verbal surface whose discipline enables him to evade narrow egotism and forces both reader and writer into an act of collaboration and corroboration. Written at a time when criticism was turning to focus on the relation between the reader and the text, this study added a provocative dimension to the debate and is still an important read today.Voor de inhoud: zie foto 2.Auteur: John Pilling, Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of ReadingArtikelnummer : BF6935Categorie: Biografieën / Engelstalige boekenTaal: EngelsISBN: 07 1000 7302 / 97807 1000 7308Uitgever:  Routledge & Kegan PaulDruk: 1Jaar: 1981Pagina's: 178Bindwijze: Hardcover, met stofomslagAfmetingen: 14 x 22 cm.Conditie: Goed; de omslag heeft een licht verkleurde rug en aan de achterkant een verticale strook langs de rug en ook bovenaanVerzending: BriefpostINCLUSIEF VERZENDKOSTEN