Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Intentions and Confessions
1	The Singer in the Song: Autobiography in The Odyssey	3
2	The Pleasures of Nostos: Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory	17
3	Filling Up the Silent Vacancy: Edward Gibbons' Autobiography	37
4	Unspeakable Practices, Writable Acts: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography	54
5	The Sorrows of Autobiography: Somerset Maugham's The Summing Up	67
6	Redemptive Evasions: Edwin Muir's The Story and the Fable	81
7	Autobiographical Writing as Death Weapon: Thomas Bernhard's Gathering Evidence and Franz Kafka's Letter to His Father	99
8	Figuration and Disfigurement: Herculine Barbin's Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite	117
9	Annulled Selves: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison's An Accidental Autobiography and Michel Leiris's Biffures	131
10	Romantic Posing: The Life and Death Writing of Benjamin Robert Haydon	149
11	"A Serpent in the Coils of a Pythoness": Self-Dramatization in Eugene Delacroix's Journal	166
12	Conflict and Incorporation: Edmund Gosse's Father and Son	183
13	My Mother and Myself: Edward Dahlberg's Because I Was Flesh	201
14	Self and Other Is One Flesh: Double Voicing in Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood, Ronald Fraser's In Search of a Past, and Howard and Arthur Waskow's Becoming Brothers	215
	Epilogue: Unearthing the Father	233
	Notes	237
	Bibliography	247
	Index	259