Narratives of the Self

by Pawel Schreiber (Editor), Joanna Malicka (Editor)

Overview

The volume focuses on autobiographical, biographical and confessional writing, as well as on travel literature to highlight the various interdependencies and crossovers between writers' lives and their literary output.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631651698
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	05/26/2015
Series:	English Literature and Culture in Context , #1
Pages:	187
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Pawel Schreiber is assistant professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). His main research interests include modern British historical drama in connection with contemporary methodology of history and the image of the Second World War in Polish and American graphic novels.
Joanna Malicka is lecturer at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. She is currently working on the œuvre of Christine Brooke-Rose.

Table of Contents

Contents: Kurt Müller: Didactic Posturing: Strategies of Authorial Self-Fashioning in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography – Tomasz Niedokos: Peter Ackroyd’s Biographies: The Parallel Lives of Thomas More, T.S. Eliot and the Biographer Himself? – Katarzyna Szmigiero: Two Accounts of One Life: Marya Hornbacher’s Wasted and Madness in Close-up – Anna Słonina: Carolyn Cassady’s Off the Road - a Real-life Story Behind Kerouac’s On the Road – Maciej Adamski: Wheels within Wheels + To thine own self be true = Writing and Motoring – Paweł Schreiber: Tom Stoppard’s alternative autobiography in Rock ‘n’ Roll – Wojciech Jasiakiewicz: Visions of Poland, Russia and Europe. «Rizpah» Charles Algernon Swinburne – Magdalena Ożarska: The Beginnings and Endings in Selected Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley – Agnieszka Małek: The Corsican as the Noble Savage in the Eyes of James Boswell – Dariusz Pestka: Making alter egos up: Flann O’Brien’s narrative voices as deliberate impossibilities – Tomasz Sawczuk: «I Was Just Somebody Else, Some Stranger». Hysterical Avatars of Jack Kerouac: a Lacanian Perspective – Kamil Michta: Fictionalised Memoir: Living and Writing in J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, Youth and Summertime – Stephen Butler: «A cheerful paper about a depressive writer’s life and work» – Marta Lupa:«To suspend disbelief» Confessional Narrative in Nineteenth-Century and Postmodern Novel – Natalia Brzozowska: «I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned» - Emotional Expression and Identity in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Monika Włudzik: Drug of Choice: Self-medication and Self-preservation in De Quincey and Andrews.

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