{"product_id":"the-story-of-me-marjorie-worthington-9781496207579","title":"The Story of Me: Contemporary American Autofiction","description":"Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern cliché. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of \"Me\"\u003c\/i\u003e charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction's conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon--and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege--the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the \"death of the author,\" and the rise of memoir culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, from which the term originated, and the rise of autofiction among various American literary movements, from modernism to New Criticism to New Journalism. \u003ci\u003eThe Story of \"Me\" \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature, from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marjorie Worthington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496207572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496207579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019","brand":"Marjorie Worthington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43936367444223,"sku":"9781496207579","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f1d6642c-a0d7-47eb-9300-f75f54321885.jpg?v=1681425152","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-story-of-me-marjorie-worthington-9781496207579","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}