Nalbantian aesthetic autobiography vs biography

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'A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography.

Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography.

Taking her terminology mainly from Proust, Nalbantian shows how aesthetic autobiographies achieve this distance between author and fictional.

This chapter argues that the notion of 'aesthetic autobiography', attached by Suzanne Nalbantian to the modernist autobiographical Künstlerroman, in fact.

Nalbantian identifies in Aesthetic Autobiography.

Suzanne Nalbantian's new bookAesthetic Autobiography* does not seem to be polemical at first sight.

Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in their wake - Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterised by a common aesthetics. She discovers in these writings a threshold of artistic transformation beyond the identification of biographical authenticity.

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SUZANNE NALBANTIAN

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