Week 9: June 2

Part I

Assignment:

J.J. Rousseau, Confessions, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Rousseau, Judge of Jean Jacques

Part 2

Self-reflexive writing in the twentieth century

F.R. Hart, "Notes for an Anatomy of Modern Autobiography," in Ralph cohen, New Directions in Literary History (Baltimore, 1974) PN441 C659n

Kathleen Ashley, et al., eds., Autobiography and Post Modernism (Amherst, 1994) PS366 A88 A92 1994

Georgia Johnston, "Narratologies of Pleasure: Gertrude Stein's 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'," in Modern Fiction Studies 42 (1996), pp. 590ff.

John Burt Foster, "Cultural Multiplicity in Two Modern Autobiographies," in Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995), pp. 205ff.

Terry Keefe and Edmund Smyth, eds., Autobiography and the Existential Self (Liverpool, 1995) PQ307 A65 A93 1995b

Kathleen Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters, eds., Autobiography and Postmodernism (Amherst, 1994) PS366 A88 A92 1994

Germaine Bree, Narcissus absconditas: The Problematic Art of Autobiography in Contemporary France (Oxford, 1978) PQ629 B745n

Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust (University Park, 1997) D804.19 B74 1997

Barbara Saunders, Contemporary German Autobiography (London, 1985) PT735 S28 1985

Brian Finney, The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century (London, 1985) PR808 A9 F56 1985b

Jerry Aline Flieger, Colette and the Fantom Subject of Autobiography (Ithaca, 1992) PQ2605 C67 Z5f
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Wolfgang Paulsen, Das Ich im Spiegel der Sprache: Autobiographisches Schreiben in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Tubingen, 1991) PT35 U61 v. 58

Raylene Ramsey, The French New Autobiographies (Gainesville, 1996) PQ629 R36 1996

Peter Sloterdijk, Literatur und Organisation von Lebenserfahrung: Autobiggraphien der zwanziger Jahre (Mudnchen, 1978) PT735 S58 1978

Porter Abbott, Beckett Writing Beckett (Ithaca, 1996) PQ2603 B3885 Z5abb 1996

Lothar Bluhm, Das Tagebuch zum dritten Reich (Bonn, 1991) PT405 B538 1991

Kasimir Edschmid, Briefe der Expressionisten (Frankfurt, 1964) SRLF A 001 275 002 2

Mark S. Roberts, "Schreber as Machine, Technophobe and Virtualist," in TDR 40 (1996), pp. 31ff.

Jane Marie Todd, Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida (NY, 1990) CT25 T63 1990