{"product_id":"the-culture-of-autobiography-9780804720489","title":"The Culture of Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiverse tendencies in critical and cultural theory have combined to give autobiography a new importance. The essays in this collection address from different vantage points the larger problems posed by the form and the question of its institutional and cultural marginality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: the institution of autobiography Robert Folkenflik; 2. Theory versus autobiography John Sturrock; 3. The autobiographical process Jerome Bruner; 4. Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography Julia Watson; 5. Institutionalizing women's autobiography: nineteenth-century editors and the shaping of an autobiographical tradition Linda H. Peterson; 6. Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography Lindon Barrett; 7. The Mexican immigrant as *: the (de) formation of Mexican immigrant life story Genaro M. Padilla; 8. What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik Barbara D. Metcalf; 9. 'In me the solitary sublimity': posturing and the collapse of romantic will in Bejamin Robert Haydon Roger J. Porter; 10. Hogarth's self-representations Ronald Paulson; 11. The self as other Robert Folkenflik; Notes; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405430399319,"sku":"9780804720489","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804720489.jpg?v=1730491716","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-culture-of-autobiography-9780804720489","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}