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...

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Published in:	Textual Practice Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 475 - 496
Main Author:	Young, Robert J. C.
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2024
Subjects:	Marcus, Laura Authorship Memory disorders Creative ability Literary characters 19th century (Literary period) 20th century (Literary period)
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