Critical autobiography: a new genre?

Memoir, a genre that dates back, arguably, to Augustine’s Confessions, if not even earlier, is today enjoying enormous critical as well as popular success. In this essay, I discuss what I see as the most recent ramification of memoir, namely the development of a distinguishable new subgenre which I...

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Main Author: Laura Di Summa-Knoop
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2017.1358047