Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography
By James Olney
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James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes it live.
Originally published in 1972.
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