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Accardi, Bernard F.

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The epistemological rhetoric of autobiography.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The epistemological rhetoric of autobiography./
Author:	Accardi, Bernard F.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1341.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9528330

The epistemological rhetoric of autobiography.
Accardi, Bernard F.

The epistemological rhetoric of autobiography. - 296 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1341.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 1994.

The introductory chapter establishes the premises concerning rhetoric that serve to validate my close reading of the metaphors of autobiographies: using the rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke, Hayden White, and Michel Foucault, I argue that metaphors, including commonplaces and figures of speech, reflect the ontological assumptions that valorize self-inscription for autobiographers.Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The epistemological rhetoric of autobiography.
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520 $a The introductory chapter establishes the premises concerning rhetoric that serve to validate my close reading of the metaphors of autobiographies: using the rhetorical theories of Kenneth Burke, Hayden White, and Michel Foucault, I argue that metaphors, including commonplaces and figures of speech, reflect the ontological assumptions that valorize self-inscription for autobiographers.
520 $a Of the four texts I examine, the first three--Augustine's Confessions, John Bunyan's Grace Abounding, and Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography--illustrate the way "Neoplatonic" metaphors have been adapted by autobiographers to reinforce epistemological premises that support their self-representational enterprises. I demonstrate how assumptions about self and self-knowledge that have had broad currency throughout the history of Western culture are conceptualized through four different metaphors associated with Christian Neoplatonism: the metaphors of light, dark, journey, and self-gathering.
520 $a I use the figurative language of the fourth text--Henry Adams's Education--to exemplify a competing metaphoric scheme that reflects an alternative epistemological premise and to illustrate the formal idiosyncrasies that result from shifting philosophical assumptions. I argue that Adams's metaphors are influenced largely by eighteenth-century empiricism and nineteenth-century psychology. They include metaphors of impression, space, economy, and construction. By analyzing the autobiography of Henry Adams, whose understanding of the self and self-knowledge precludes the religious or mystical assumptions associated with Neoplatonism, I show that the impulse toward autobiography varies in different cultural contexts that are filtered through the personal influences on the writer.
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