Product Description: James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality...read more

Product Description: Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press...read more

Product Description: Memory and Narrative presents an elegant, authoritative account of how life-writing has changed over time to arrive at its present form. James Olney, one of the most distinguished scholars of autobiography, tells the story of an evolving literary form that originated in the autobiographical writings of St...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, critic James Olney explores the work of three seemingly disparate precursors of modernism - Whitman, Dickinson and Hopkins - and establishes a set of criteria by which any reader might judge and better appreciate a poem...read more

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Product Description: In 1985, twenty years after T.S. Eliot's death, a special number of The Southern Review was published that was devoted entirely to his life and work. This book, with some additions and excisions, make that number available to a wider audience in the year that marks the 100th anniversary of Eliot's birth...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together seventeen original papers on autobiography and autobiography studies by an international group of outstanding writers, critics, and scholars. The contributors address a wide range of autobiographical topics, from the general (Wallace Fowlie on writing autobiography and Felicity Nussbaum on conceptualizing diary) to the particular (James M...read more

Product Description: A volume in the Southern Literary Studies series, Louis D. Rubin, editor. Includes a transcription of a 1935 conference on southern American literature in the first section. The second section focuses on the cultural context of southern writing and publishing...read more

Gathers stories by Nadine Gordimer, Maxine Kumin, Joyce Carol Oates, Reynolds Price, Anne Tyler, and Mary Lavin

Product Description: The Description for this book, Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography, will be forthcoming.

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