1st Edition
Contemporary Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing Narrating the Male Self
By Christina Schönberger-Stepien
Copyright 2023
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative... Read more
Biography
Christina Schönberger-Stepien is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research areas include life-writing, Victorian literature and culture, and working-class literature. She has published essays on autobiographical writing, on the feminist biopic, and on contemporary workingclass anthologies.
