Week 4: April 28

Part 1

Assignment:

Philippe Lejeune, On Autobiographv

Part 2

Theoretical approaches to self-reflexive writing

Laura Marcus, Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (NY, 1994). PR756 A9 M37 1994

Robert Smith, Derrida and Autobiography (Cambridge, 1995). B2430 D484 S55 1995

Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the Other: Autobiography, Transference, Translations (NY, 1985). CT25 D4713 1985

Michael Jaeger, Autobiographie und Geschichte (Stuttgart, 1995)

Philippe Lejeune, Je est un autre (Paris, 1980) PQ145 L4

Philippe Lejeune, Le memoire est oblique (Paris, 1991) PQ2676 P413 Z51

Philippe Lejeune, Moi aussi (Paris, 1986) PN 3352 S44 L45 1986

Jeffrey Mehlman, A Structural Study of Autobiography (Ithaca, 1974) PQ 771 m474S

Mark Sanders, "Theorizing the Collaborative Self: The Dynamics of Contour and Content in the Dictated Autobiography," in New Literary History 25 (1994), pp. 445ff.

Angelika Ebrecht, et al., eds., Brief Theorie des 18. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1990) PT728 B79 1990