Autobiographical Quests

Autobiographical Quests
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 081391468X
ISBN-13 : 9780813914688
Rating : 4/5 (688 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Autobiographical Quests by : Elizabeth De Mijolla

Download or read book Autobiographical Quests written by Elizabeth De Mijolla and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posits two approaches to writing autobiography: that which records events in the order they happened and as they were perceived at the time; and that which interprets the past in light of subsequent experience and is more or less achronological. Shows how Augustine represents the first approach, and how the other three express varying divergence from strict temporal order. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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