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Bits of Autobiography: Radical Deindividualization and Everydayness
- Author(s):
- James E. Dobson (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- GS Life Writing, Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Psychology and literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- autobiography, phenomenology, individuality, Ambrose Bierce, Literature and psychology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6M59V
- Abstract:
- This essay focuses on the autobiographical strategies deployed by Ambrose Bierce in response to shifting conceptions of the literary representation of everyday life. I place Bierce at the transition point between nineteenth and twentieth-century realism, between an understanding of typical experience as comfortably generic and a growing sense that the common story has produced a horrify anonymity. "Bits of Autobiography" are fragmentary and hypersubjective narratives that Bierce uses in his attempt to re individuate by breaking with the repetitiveness that he associates with this latter understanding.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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