Translated memories: autobiography and the surrender to literature.
In an exploration of the problems of writing autobiography and biography articulated by Laura Marcus, I show how Yeats, Wittgenstein and Woolf, identify the note as the form that keeps alive the life that autobiography and biography are always paradoxically in danger of making absent. The promissory...
| Publicado en: | Textual Practice Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 475 - 496 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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