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"The Masques of the Self" - Autograph Draft

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Gass, William H. “‘The Masques of the Self’ - Autograph Draft”. Harper’s Magazine, William H. Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/gass/item/14453

Title: "The Masques of the Self" - Autograph Draft
Description: Autograph draft fragments titled "The Masques of the Self," eventually published as "The Art of Self: Autobiography in an Age of Narcissism," Harper's Magazine, May 1994, reprinted in The Best American Essays of 1994, reprinted and translated into Spanish in El malpensante, and collected as "Autobiography" in Finding a Form.
Subject: Gass, William H., 1924---Essays.
Creator: Gass, William H.
Source: Willilam H. Gass Papers
Date: undated
Relation: Harper's Magazine; The Best American Essays; El malpensante; Finding a Form
Format: Text; JPEG files; 300 ppi
Language: English
Type: text
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