The Spirit of Biography, and: Novelists in Their Youth (review)
Contemporary critical theory is in no small measure responsible for the renewed interest in literary biography and autobiographical fiction. Deconstruction has, among other things, brought into focus the limits of textual je/f-representation; various forms of feminism have described the patriarchal structures controlling the construction of the gendered selves; the social and materialist bases of the concept of selfhood have recently been rearticulated by the New Historicism; and the levels of authorial refraction have been well discussed in the work of Mikhail