Missing Persons : The Impossibility of Auto/Biography (Hardcover)
by Mary Evans

Sorry: This item is not currently available.

This item is Non-Returnable.
Free Shipping is not available for this item.

  • Online Price
    $160.00
 

Connect with BAM!

Share this with a friend

See what others are saying

 

0 Ratings

 
 
 

Quick Links:
Overview
Details
Customer Reviews
Discussion
eBook
Online Price: $59.95		Download
 
 
 
Overview
Can biography and autobiography tell us the truth about an individual? These currently popular literary genres are widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and her or his personal circumstances. "Missing Persons" suggests that biography and autobiography are, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what is possible to know about any one individual.
Mary Evans organizes her study into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British royal family, George Orwell, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. She explores how individuals have acted to construct themselves, using case studies to highlight the different choices made and the social influences involved, and demonstrates the absences and evasions--indeed, the "missing persons"--of biography and autobiography.

 
 
 
Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415099752
  • ISBN-10: 0415099757
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: January 1999
  • Page Count: 176

Related Categories

Books > Literary Criticism > General
 
 
 
Customer Reviews

 
 

DISCUSSION