Autobiography and imagination vs The grammar of autobiography: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Autobiographies as Topic, Autobiographie, Biography & Memoir
Autobiography and imagination
This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes. The…
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The grammar of autobiography
This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology. It is an outgrowth of the historical relationship between…
The verdict
- The grammar of autobiography reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 10 times.
How to choose
Reception
| Autobiography and imagination | The grammar of autobiography | |
|---|---|---|
| Editions | 7 | 8 |
| Citations | 3 | 10 |
| Pages | 178 | 248 |