{"product_id":"narratives-of-the-self-9783631651698","title":"Narratives of the Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and discusses literary works from the 17th century to the present day. The first part approaches the issue of autobiography and biography, the second part takes a close look at travel writing, while the third discusses various lives in fiction and the fourth deals with confessional writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eKurt Müller: Didactic Posturing: Strategies of Authorial Self-Fashioning in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography – Tomasz Niedokos:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ePeter Ackroyd’s Biographies: The Parallel Lives of Thomas More, T.S. Eliot and the Biographer Himself? – Katarzyna Szmigiero:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTwo Accounts of One Life: Marya Hornbacher’s \u003ci\u003eWasted \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMadness \u003c\/i\u003ein Close-up – Anna Słonina\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eCarolyn Cassady’s \u003ci\u003eOff the Road \u003c\/i\u003e- a Real-life Story Behind Kerouac’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e – Maciej Adamski:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWheels within Wheels + To thine own self be true = Writing and Motoring – Paweł Schreiber: Tom Stoppard’s alternative autobiography in \u003ci\u003eRock ‘n’ Roll\u003c\/i\u003e – Wojciech Jasiakiewicz:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eVisions of Poland, Russia and Europe. «Rizpah» Charles Algernon Swinburne – Magdalena Ożarska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Beginnings and Endings in Selected Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley – Agnieszka Małek\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eThe Corsican as the Noble Savage in the Eyes of James Boswell – Dariusz Pestka:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMaking alter egos up: Flann O’Brien’s narrative voices as deliberate impossibilities – Tomasz Sawczuk: «I Was Just Somebody Else, Some Stranger». Hysterical Avatars of Jack Kerouac: a Lacanian Perspective – Kamil Michta:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFictionalised Memoir: Living and Writing in J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, \u003ci\u003eYouth \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e – Stephen Butler: «A cheerful paper about a depressive writer’s life and work» – Marta Lupa:«To suspend disbelief» Confessional Narrative in Nineteenth-Century and Postmodern Novel – Natalia Brzozowska:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e«I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned» - Emotional Expression and Identity in the Poetry of Elizabeth I – Monika Włudzik:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDrug of Choice: Self-medication and Self-preservation in De Quincey and Andrews.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044276961623,"sku":"9783631651698","price":38.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631651698.jpg?v=1750961110","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narratives-of-the-self-9783631651698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}