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Touching The World: Reference In Autobiography

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Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story ...more
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Published May 1st 1992 by Princeton University Press (first published January 1st 1992)
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