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How Our Lives Become Stories

Paperback • 1999 • English

How Our Lives Become Stories

By Paul John Eakin

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About the book

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, May Karr's The Liar's Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of authobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhances k...Show more

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ISBN

9780801485985

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

How Our Lives Become Stories

Format

Paperback

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