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Design and Truth in Autobiography
by
Roy Pascal
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-e
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A seminal work, yet very idealizing of its subject (i.e., "Equally significant is the discovery, through the autobiography, of the great complexity of the human psyche" - I think this might be overstating the importance of autobiographies; in Pascal's opinions, autobios could serve this function because they were “free of literary conventions,” which also does not ring true once you look at the texts themselves, which are part and parcel of the literary processes of their times; etc., etc.)
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