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Starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death.

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"In an extraordinarily demanding revision of the autobiographical genre, Brut zeroes in on how the subject engages with language not merely to produce an exemplary identity but to write its own demise ... Highly recommended." -- -K.M. Sibbald McGill University "An adventurous, incisive, and vigorous work of reading and theory that aspires to engage its subject - the autobiographical 'I' understood in its relation to an otherness exceeding representation-at a high level of intellectual responsibility." -- -Joshua Wilner The City University of New York "Examines the shadowy forms of self that emerge in autobiography's call to represent the unrepresentable, or the subject's death." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Burt succeeds in the extraordinary task of revising scholarly understanding of the genre of autobiography." -- -Marc Redfield Claremont Graduate School

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780823230907, 978-0823230907
      ISBN10: 0823230902
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death.

      Trade Review
      "In an extraordinarily demanding revision of the autobiographical genre, Brut zeroes in on how the subject engages with language not merely to produce an exemplary identity but to write its own demise ... Highly recommended." -- -K.M. Sibbald McGill University "An adventurous, incisive, and vigorous work of reading and theory that aspires to engage its subject - the autobiographical 'I' understood in its relation to an otherness exceeding representation-at a high level of intellectual responsibility." -- -Joshua Wilner The City University of New York "Examines the shadowy forms of self that emerge in autobiography's call to represent the unrepresentable, or the subject's death." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Burt succeeds in the extraordinary task of revising scholarly understanding of the genre of autobiography." -- -Marc Redfield Claremont Graduate School

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