{"product_id":"selfsame-songs-9780803287679","title":"SelfSame Songs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roger Porter both shows and tells us much about the act of autobiography in his excellent \u003ci\u003eSelf-Same Songs\u003c\/i\u003e. Illuminating studies of the performances are wonderfully balanced and sharpened by reflections on Porter's own rich, diverse, and always astonishing life. A critical and imaginative triumph.\"—James Olney, author of \u003ci\u003eMemory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roger Porter reads and writes autobiography with subtlety and passion. These adventurous essays offer a splendid introduction to the riches of the form.\"—John Eakin, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An aesthetic book, an autobiography formed as much by others’ autobiographies as by one’s own life, raw life transformed through autobiographical literature.”—Regenia Gagnier, \u003ci\u003eBiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSelf-Same Songs\u003c\/i\u003e offers engaging, subtle, accessible, and insightful readings of an eclectic range of autobiographical texts. And Roger Porter's lively interweaving of personal narrative with each chapter extends critical inquiry into a dialogic conversation that is provocative for the reader's own self-reflection.\"—Julia Watson, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eReading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments; IntroductionAutobiography and Exile1. The Singer in the Song: Autobiography in The Odyssey2. The Pleasures of Nostos: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, MemoryAutobiography as Defense3. Filling Up the Silent Vacancy: Edward Gibbon's Autobiography4. Unspeakable Practices, Writable Acts: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography5. The Sorrows of Autobiography: Somerset Maugham's The Summing Up6. Redemptive Evasions: Edwin Muir's The Story and the FableAutobiography as Self-Effacement7. Autobiographical Writing as Death Weapon: Thomas Bernhard's Gathering Evidence and Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father8. Figuration and Disfigurement: Herculine Barbin's Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite9. Annulled Selves: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's An Accidental Autobiography and Michel Leiris's Biffures Autobiographical Posturing10. Romantic Posing: The Life and Death Writing of Benjamin Robert Haydon11. \"A Serpent in the Coils of a Pythoness\": Self-Dramatization in Eugene Delacroix's JournalSelf as Other, the Other as Self12. Conflict and Incorporation: Edmund Gosse's Father and Son13. My Mother and Myself: Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh14. Self and Other Is One Flesh: Double Voicing in Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood, Ronald Fraser's In Search of a Past,  and Howard and Arthur Waskow's Becoming BrothersEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405285531991,"sku":"9780803287679","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803287679.jpg?v=1730489492","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selfsame-songs-9780803287679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}