{"product_id":"literary-selves-autobiography-and-contemporary-american-nonfiction-9780313288258","title":"Literary Selves: Autobiography and Contemporary American Nonfiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James N. Stull\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Praeger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Praeger\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeparting from previous discussions of literary nonfiction in terms of its being literature or journalism, this new study treats literary nonfiction as autobiography, examining a large body of work in terms of autobiographical theory. The collected works of six very different prominent literary journalists--John McPhee, Joe McGinniss, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Norman Mailer--are analyzed from literary, autobiographical, and cultural perspectives. Author James Stull explains how the complex, fully-rounded psychological and social self is crystalized in these works into a more encompassing statement of self-identification, which he calls a metaphor of self, a distinctive way an author presents a self and its world. Numerous other writers and critics are brought into the discussion, and the author provides an extensive reference bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Praeger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45084885876887,"sku":"9780313288258","price":7637.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780313288258.webp?v=1767264827","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/literary-selves-autobiography-and-contemporary-american-nonfiction-9780313288258","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}