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By Maria DiBattista,Emily Wittman

This quantity deals seventeen unique essays that attest to the intense inventiveness and diversity of modernist autobiography. It examines the methods modernist writers selected to inform their existence tales, with specific cognizance to kinds, venues, modes of tackle, and levels of truthfulness. The essays are grouped round a suite of rubrics that isolate the designated personality and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ancestry and culture that foreground the modernists' stricken relation to their fast familial in addition to cultural prior; their emergence as writers whose stories chanced on expression in untraditional and singular kinds; their experience of themselves as survivors of private and historic traumas; and their burdens as self-chroniclers of loss, specially of self-loss. it is going to charm in particular to students and scholars of literary modernism and English literature extra generally.

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