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Epilogue
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The Epilogue opens by discussing the composition of Viriginia Woolf’s unfinished fragment of autobiography, “Sketch of the Past” (1939–40). It analyzes some of Woolf’s theories in this text: above all, on how the time of the writing always affects the nature of autobiography, and on how all autobiography inevitably includes other people, thereby becoming a form of group biography. The Epilogue returns to and summarizes the central themes in Portraits from Life: especially the difficulty of distinguishing between the two genres of the novel and the autobiography, and the way in which autobiography is always implicatory. It argues that there is a crucial difference, finally, in the risks involved in “formal” autobiography, and ends with an assertion of the distinct features of autobiography as opposed to the novel.
Title: Epilogue
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The Epilogue opens by discussing the composition of Viriginia Woolf’s unfinished fragment of autobiography, “Sketch of the Past” (1939–40).
It analyzes some of Woolf’s theories in this text: above all, on how the time of the writing always affects the nature of autobiography, and on how all autobiography inevitably includes other people, thereby becoming a form of group biography.
The Epilogue returns to and summarizes the central themes in Portraits from Life: especially the difficulty of distinguishing between the two genres of the novel and the autobiography, and the way in which autobiography is always implicatory.
It argues that there is a crucial difference, finally, in the risks involved in “formal” autobiography, and ends with an assertion of the distinct features of autobiography as opposed to the novel.