Autothanatography in Rousseau, De Quincey, Baudelaire, and Wilde
by
E.S. Burt
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2009
Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity...