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Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre
Character and Conversion in Autobiography Augustine Montaigne Descartes Rousseau and Sartre
Author: Patrick Riley
What happens, asks Patrick Riley, when a life transformed becomes an autobiography? What is the relationship between the subjective upheaval of conversion and the representation of character? Who, then, is this "self" writing the narrative of a life? Thinking of conversion as a radical turning point or fulcrum on which incompatible configuration...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813922928
ISBN-10: 0813922925
Pages: 224
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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