Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir

Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir

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Author/Contributor(s): de Bres, Helena
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09/10/2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
"From social media to the return of the personal essay to the rise of "autofiction," it seems we inhabit an era of unprecedented self-display. But self-display in its literary form, the memoir, has been around for ages, always freighted with formal and philosophical complexity from Augustine's Confessions on. In this book, philosopher Helena de Bres tackles the philosophy of memoir. What is memoir? Is all memoir really fiction? Should memoirists aim to tell the truth? What do memoirists owe the people they write about? And finally: Why write a memoir at all?"--