<p> 1</p><p>JS OPTION: MODERN FRENCH AUTOBIOGRAPHY SELECTIVE GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY</p><p>ANDERSON, Linda, Autobiography. Useful introduction to the genre. ARTS 809.93.P1</p><p>BRÉE, Germaine, Narcissus Abscondicus: The Problematic Art of Autobiography in Contemporary France. Only 24 pp. Useful survey. PL-30-158 reserve no. 810.</p><p>COE, Richard N., When the Grass was Taller: Autobiography and the Experience of Childhood . Rather diffuse, but good for dipping into. Includes two chapters on portrait-of-the-artist type of childhood auto. 809.93 M491.</p><p>EAKIN, Paul John Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention An important theoretical work, see last chapter especially. LEN 818 M5.</p><p>EAKIN, Paul John, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography. Some interesting reflections. ARTS 818 N21.</p><p>EAKIN, John Paul, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves. Good on changing theories of selfhood. PL-319-146.</p><p>KING, Nicola, Memory, Narrative, Identity: Remembering the Self. Good on contemporary approaches to memory. PL-333-211.</p><p>HUGHES, Alex, Heterographies: Sexual Difference in French Autobiography. 843.91N9.</p><p>LECARME, Jacques, L’Autobiographie. Well written, multi-facetted survey. LEN 840.9 N792.</p><p>LEJEUNE, Philippe, L'Autobiographie en France. Concise survey text. HB-55-832.</p><p>LEJEUNE, Philippe, Le pacte autobiographique. PL's main work, containing his theory of auto: see especially first and last chapters. ARTS 840 L53;1 + LEN 840 L53.</p><p>LEJEUNE, Philippe, Je est un autre: L'autobiographie, de la littérature aux medias. An extension of PL's earlier work. LEN 840 MO.</p><p>LEJEUNE, Philippe (ed.), Autofictions & Cie. Good collection of essays on ‘autofiction’. PL-339-535 (Santry).</p><p>MARCUS, Laura, Auto/biographical discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice. Stimulating essays. ARTS 828 N4.</p><p>MAY, Georges, L'autobiographie. Straightforward, at times reductive, intro. to the topic: “types” of auto., the how and why of auto., the question of neighbouring genres, especially the novel. LEN 809 L94.</p><p>RUGG, Linda Haverty, Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography. A good specialist work. PL-285-64. 2</p><p>SHERINGHAM, Michael, French Autobiography: Devices and Desires. Highly recommended, see especially opening chapter, also individual sections on Sarraute and Duras. ARTS 840.9 N3.</p>