Autobiography as Advertisement
Why Do Gertrude Stein's Sentences Get Under Our Skin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4875187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helga Lenart-Cheng (0000-0002-7428-9551, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-131 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2091492360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Autobiographers can manipulate not only public issues in an indirect, suggestive way, but their autobiographies can have a similarly decisive role in modifying public opinion concerning the values of their own art. We fall pray to these seemingly innocent self-promoting strategies, even though they often influence decisively our assessment of these authors-and ultimately our literary canons. By examining the autobiography of Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in light of a few accepted basics drawn from advertising, the present essay emphasizes the manipulative aspect of autobiographical writing by showing how the text of an autobiography can serve as a quite practical means to promote one's own art
Alice (programming language) · Art · Art history · Biography · Literature · Art, Politics, and Modernism · History · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2014 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |