Author: Michel Beaujour
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814711927
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Investigates the literary self-portrait genre. From St Augustine to Montaigne, and from Nietzsche to Barthes, individual self-portraits are analyzed along with the cultural matrix from which self-portrayal derives its non-narrative structure, and many of its recurrent topics.