Download or read book Poetics of the Literary Self-Portrait written by Michel Beaujour and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the literary self-portrait genre. From St Augustine to Montaigne, and from Nietzsche to Barthes, individual self-portraits are analyzed along with the cultural matrix from which self-portrayal derives its non-narrative structure, and many of its recurrent topics.