The Rise of the Memoir
Author:   Alex Zwerdling (Professor of English, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198755784


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alex Zwerdling (Professor of English, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780198755784


ISBN 10:   0198755783
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Memoir as Project and Product 1: Rousseau and the Art of Secular Confession 2: Inventing the Family Memoir 3: Mastering the Memoir 4: Orwell s Reticence and the Need to Bear Witness 5: Remembering in Stages 6: Primo Levi s Recursive Memory 7: Imagining the Facts in Kingston s Memoirs

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The Rise of the Memoir, will be greeted with resounding applause. Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement


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Alex Zwerdling is Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

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