The philosophy of autobiography /

edited by Christopher Cowley.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Cowley, Christopher, 1967- Editor.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: 242 pages ; 23 cm

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ISBN:9780226267890
022626789X
9780226267920
022626792X
Table of Contents:
Introduction: what is a philosophy of autobiography?
Art imitating life imitating art: literary narrative and autobiographical narrative / Marya Schechtman
A person's words: literary characters and autobiographical understanding / Garry L. Hagberg
Body, memory, and irrelevancies in Hiroshima Mon Amour / Christopher Hamilton
Memory, self-understanding, and agency / Marina Oshana
Telling our own stories: narrative selves and oppressive circumstance / John Christman
Self-deception, self-knowledge, and autobiography / Somogy Varga
Autobiographical acts / K. Levy
Writing about others: an autobiographical perspective / Merete Mazzarella
From "I" to "we": acts of agency in Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophical Autobiography / J. Lenore Wright
Fraudulence, obscurity, and exposure: the autobiographical anxieties of Stanley Cavell / Ine Mahon.