Design and Truth in Autobiography
Design and Truth in Autobiography by Roy Pascal, published by Routledge on August 7, 2015, is a scholarly exploration of the art of autobiography. This edition spans 202 pages and is presented in English. The book addresses fundamental questions about the nature of autobiography, its origins, and its evolution into a significant form of literary self-expression.
Readers will find a thorough examination of the characteristics that define autobiography, along with an analysis of its historical development and the concept of ‘truth’ within the genre. The study delves into the motivations behind autobiographical writing and the quest for self-knowledge that it embodies. With a focus on biography and literary criticism, this work serves as a reference for those interested in the intersections of language, writing, and nonfiction.
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Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves examination for its own sake. This book outlines a definition of the form and traces its historical origins and development, analyses its ‘truth’ and talks about what sort of self-knowledge it investigates.
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