Journal article
Tobias Wolff's Old School: Truth, Lies, Fiction, and the American Boarding School
Critique - Bolingbroke Society, Vol.55(4), pp.358-372
08/08/2014
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2013.783545
Abstract
This essay traces the connections between Tobias Wolff's life writing, his fiction, and the life writing of Wolff's brother, Geoffrey Wolff. It examines the links within Wolff's writing and life and between the characteristics of the American boys' prep school environment and a tendency to lie about the self, and it argues that Wolff conceives of fiction paradoxically as both refuge from and extension of those instincts of deceitful self-projection.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Tobias Wolff's Old School: Truth, Lies, Fiction, and the American Boarding School
- Creators
- David Gooblar - Augustana College and Mount Mercy University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Critique - Bolingbroke Society, Vol.55(4), pp.358-372
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/00111619.2013.783545
- ISSN
- 0011-1619
- eISSN
- 1939-9138
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/08/2014
- Academic Unit
- English; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984002462602771
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