TY - BOOK ID - 32314463 TI - Fictions in autobiography : studies in the art of self-invention PY - 1988 SN - 0691014450 0691631530 1400854792 0691601933 9780691014456 069106640X 9780691066400 9781400854790 9780691631530 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - American prose literature KW - Authors, American KW - Authors, French KW - Autobiography KW - Fiction KW - Self in literature KW - Prose américaine KW - Ecrivains américains KW - Ecrivains français KW - Autobiographie KW - Roman KW - Moi dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Biography KW - Histoire et critique KW - Biographies KW - American prose literature --20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. KW - Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography. KW - Authorship -- Psychological aspects. KW - Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century. KW - Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980. KW - Invention (Rhetoric) KW - Autobiography. KW - Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. KW - Self in literature. KW - Authorship KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - American Literature KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - French authors KW - Rhetoric KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Novelists KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - History KW - Psychological aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Technique KW - Sartre, Jean-Paul, KW - Sartre, Jean-Paul KW - Sartŭr, Zhan-Pol KW - Sartr, Zhan-Polʹ KW - Sārtar, Jān-Būl KW - Sārtar, Zhān-Pūl KW - Sha-tʻe KW - Sartre, J.-P. KW - Sa-tʻe KW - Sate KW - Sa-tʻe, Jang-Pao-erh KW - Sate, Rangbao'er KW - Sāt, Chō̜ng-Pō̜n KW - Sarutoru KW - Sarṭr, G'on Pol KW - Chō̜ng-Pō̜n Sāt KW - Cārttar, L̲ān̲-Pōl KW - Сартp, Жан-Поль, KW - סארטר, ג׳אן פול KW - סארטר, ג׳אן פון KW - סארטר, ז׳אן פול KW - סארטר, ז׳אן־פול, KW - سارتر، جان پول KW - Guillemin, Jacques KW - Sārtra, Jyām̐ Pāla KW - サルトル, ジャン ポール KW - Authorship - Psychological aspects KW - American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism KW - Authors, American - 20th century - Biography KW - Authors, French - 20th century - Biography KW - Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism KW - Sartre, Jean-Paul, - 1905-1980 KW - History and criticism. KW - Psychological aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32314463 AB - Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living and only eventually, and occasionally, in writing.Originally published in 1985.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. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -