TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schönberger-Stepien,Christina
TI  - Contemporary second- and third-person autobiographical writing: narrating the male self 
T2  - Routledge auto/biography studies
SN  - 9781003345374
U1  - 820.9/35 23/eng/20230206
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Auster, Paul,
KW  - Barnes, Julian
KW  - Coetzee, J. M.,
KW  - Rushdie, Salman
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Point of view (Literature)
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Towards a Poetics of Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing -- Embodiment and Self in Paul Auster's Winter Journal -- Visuality and Self in Paul Auster's Report from the Interior -- Personal and Exemplary Grief in Julian Barnes's Levels of Life -- The Personal and the Ethical in J.M. Coetzee's Summertime -- The Personal and the Political in Salman Rushdie's Joseph Anton -- Perspectives and Conclusions
N2  - "This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice of narrative perspective as well as the uncommon step of articulating the self from a perspective which is not I. Drawing on (rhetorical) narratology and autobiography theory, the book engages with questions and tensions of subjectivity and relationality, the interplay of distance and proximity resulting from the narrative perspective, and its effects on the relationship between autobiographer, text, and reader. In addition, the book traces relevant guiding principles the authors use to navigate their self-narratives in relation to others, such as questions of embodiment, visuality, grief, ethics, and politics. Situating the narratives in their socio-political and cultural context, the book uncovers to what extent these autobiographical narratives reflect the authors' position between self-withdrawal and self-promotion and their response to questions of male agency, self-stylisation, and celebrity status"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003345374
ER  -