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Artful Histories Revised Edition
Contributor(s): McCooey, David (Author)

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ISBN: 0521567904     ISBN-13: 9780521567909
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $42.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1996
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Biography & Autobiography
Dewey: B
LCCN: 95048328
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.81 lbs) 248 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Artful Histories is an account of modern Australian autobiography that radically revises theories of autobiography and discusses a remarkably broad range of popular and literary texts written over a period of three decades. In his challenge to post-structuralist theories of autobiography, particularly in terms of autobiography's relationship with fiction and history, David McCooey analyses the nature of the self, the question of intent and the role of narrative. He discusses the ways in which the autobiographer makes sense of his or her life through a developing but continuous awareness of the narrative quality of experience. The book explores themes around the mythology of childhood, education, sexuality, the discovery of hidden histories, the trauma of displacement and death and, finally, the importance of place in the Australian imagination.
 
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