

Autobiography
A Very Short Introduction
Author: Laura Marcus
Narrator: Esther Wane
Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/27/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Language Arts, Writing
Synopsis
In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by "autobiography", and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analyzing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.