| 书目名称 | Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood | | 副标题 | The Story of His Exp | | 编辑 | Clara Neary | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Challenges existing scholarship by revealing the multi-faceted nature of Gandhi‘s self-representation.Utilises cutting-edge methodological approaches drawn from cognitive linguistics.Offers a unique o | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi‘s autobiographical work .The Story of My Experiments with Truth .(1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that “no work on his life has portrayed him in totality” (Desai, 2009), and, although “arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century” and “one of the most eminent luminaries of our time,” Gandhi the individual remains “as much an enigma as a person of endless fascination” (Murrell, 2008). Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for analysing lin | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Gandhi; Cognitive Stylistics; Autobiography; The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Postcolonial studie | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22786-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-22786-8 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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