Patterns of Experience in Autobiography by Susanna Egan

Patterns of Experience in Autobiography

Susanna Egan

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Egan asks why autobiographers use patterns -- such as myths of paradise and paradise lost, the journey, conversion, and confession -- taken from fiction to express personal experiences. She suggests that these stages of the written life derive fro...

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