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Paul John Eakin: Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography

Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing.
ISBN: 9780367515775
Author: Paul John Eakin
Page: 152
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2020
Format: Book
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Language: English

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The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our most basic physiology. The next section, "Life Writing: Historical Forms," makes the case for the historical value of the subjectivity recorded in ego-documents. The essays in the final section, "Autobiography Now," identify primary motives for engaging in self-narration in an age characterized by digital media and quantum cosmology.

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