Essay of the Day, 6/21/12: "Major Man: Fellini as an Autobiographer"

“Major Man: Fellini as an Autobiorapher.” Post Script 6.2 (1987): 14-28.

Though it owed a lot to my dissertation (1978) on Fellini and my life-long fascination with Wallace Stevens (the term "major man" is his--from "Paisant Chronicle"), my participation in a 1983 NEH Summer Seminar, "The Forms of Autobiography," with James Olney at the UNC-Chapel Hill, was also a mjaor influence.

This appeared in a special issue of Post Script I guest-edited on film and autobiography.

Read it here.