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Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing
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Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing Paperback - 2000

by Olney, James

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  • Title Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing
  • Author Olney, James
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1 edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 446
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
  • Date November 15, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-V-3a-01365
  • ISBN 9780226628172 / 0226628175
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.02 x 1.07 in (23.01 x 15.29 x 2.72 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808

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Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding books in literary scholarship or criticism

Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, underwent profound changes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life-writing trilogy and, as Olney explains, found a momentary conclusion in the work of Samuel Beckett.

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About the author

James Olney is the Voorhies Professor of English and professor of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of eleven books, most recently The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is also coeditor of The Southern Review.