Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: ong>Porterong>, Roger J., PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press, "Self-Same Songs" constitutes a major contribution to the growing literary study of autobiography. Using a range of authors, incluong>diong>ng Homer, Edward Gibbon, Benjamin Franklin, Somerset Maugham, Franz Kafka, and Eugene Delacroix, Roger J. ong>Porterong> offers a broad-based examination of the autobiography and the varied techniques used by its practitioners over time. In a style that is both graceful and eruong>diong>te, ong>Porterong> focuses on the ong>diong>verse motivations and rhetorical functions that the act of self-writing serves for particular writers. He reflects on the texts not only as an exploration of self-identity but also as the writers' attempts to moong>diong>fy the life in the act of writing about it. Then, stepping out of his critical role, ong>Porterong> ends each chapter with an autobiographical ong>diong>scussion of his professional and personal engagement with the autobiographer under ong>diong>scussion, creating an intriguing and absorbing literary autobiography within the critical text.