The Personal Essay as Autobiography: a Gender and Genre Approach
I Durán - Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 2009 - ull.es
The personal essay as autobiography is the generic landscape I will traverse along these
lines. Within that field, I do a gender-oriented comparative analysis of four books that can be
read as autobiography, although they really are written as personal essays, a genre of life
writing described as “a self-trying-out; a testing of one's own intellectual, emotional, and
psychological responses to a given topic.” I explore recent hybrid autobiographical volumes
written by Spanish Rosa Montero (La loca de la casa), Canadian Margaret Atwood …
lines. Within that field, I do a gender-oriented comparative analysis of four books that can be
read as autobiography, although they really are written as personal essays, a genre of life
writing described as “a self-trying-out; a testing of one's own intellectual, emotional, and
psychological responses to a given topic.” I explore recent hybrid autobiographical volumes
written by Spanish Rosa Montero (La loca de la casa), Canadian Margaret Atwood …
The personal essay as autobiography: a gender and genre approach
I Durán Salado - 2009 - riull.ull.es
The personal essay as autobiography is the generic landscape I will traverse along these
lines. Within that field, I do a gender-oriented comparative analysis of four books that can be
read as autobiography, although they really are written as personal essays, a genre of life
writing described as “a self-trying-out; a testing of one's own intellectual, emotional, and
psychological responses to a given topic.” I explore recent hybrid autobiographical volumes
written by Spanish Rosa Montero (La loca de la casa), Canadian Margaret Atwood …
lines. Within that field, I do a gender-oriented comparative analysis of four books that can be
read as autobiography, although they really are written as personal essays, a genre of life
writing described as “a self-trying-out; a testing of one's own intellectual, emotional, and
psychological responses to a given topic.” I explore recent hybrid autobiographical volumes
written by Spanish Rosa Montero (La loca de la casa), Canadian Margaret Atwood …