Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Sunum, ss.16, 2010
‘Who fitter than a man’s selfe [to set forth his history] as being best acquainted with, and most privy to the many passages of his life?’ (Burton as cited in Stauffer 216).
Wrote Henry Burton in his life narrative, A Narration of the Life of Mr. Henry Burton. Burton’s comment reflects the light in which autobiography was viewed in the seventeenth century England, an attempt to give the objective truth about the autobiographer. The early modern self, identifiable and coterminous, is concomitant with the belief in a unified, coherent selfhood. This selfhood has essence, a core, a unity to it, and the subject position is not fluid, inconsistent, or segmented. Thus a coherent, stable, universal subjectivity is not a construct but is imminent to subjectivity.