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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts

Author : Albert E. Stone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812211276
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts written by Albert E. Stone and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1982-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone rescues autobiography from the thickets of recent critical theory, in which the life portrayed has often seemed less important than the inventive literary techniques. He argues that the techniques are important because knowledge of the life is important to our culture. Restricting himself primarily to 16 writers of the 20th century, Stone juxtaposes two or three figures in given chapters, such as "Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anais Nin" and "Two Recreate One: The Act of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography -- Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X." Other writers considered are W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Adams, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Louis Sullivan, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, and Lillian Hellman.

Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

Author : Timothy Dow Adams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography written by Timothy Dow Adams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly complex because of apparent lies that permeate them. In examining their stories, Adams shows that lying in autobiography, especially literary autobiography, is not simply inevitable. Rather it is often a deliberate, highly strategic decision on the author's part. Throughout his analysis, Adams's standard is not literal accuracy but personal authenticity. He attempts to resolve some of the paradoxes of recent autobiographical theory by looking at the classic question of design and truth in autobiography from the underside -- with a focus on lying rather than truth. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology

Author : Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567645886
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology written by Stanley E. Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology aptly describe the contents of this collection of essays from the 1994 Pretoria Rhetoric Conference. The conference marked a significant dialogue among scholars gathered from many nations to consider how rhetoric engages with the study of scripture and theology. South Africa provided a suitable context for such discussion. Although the contributors are not only from South Africa, the addressing of issues pertinent to a South African context shows through in many of the essays. Those that do not address particularly South African issues raise equally important issues regarding the topic of rhetoric and its relation to contemporary theological discourse.

Multicultural Autobiography

Author : James Robert Payne
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497407
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Autobiography written by James Robert Payne and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Autobiography

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299127848
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book American Autobiography written by Paul John Eakin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.

Women, Autobiography, Theory

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299158446
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Women, Autobiography, Theory written by Sidonie Smith and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.

Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject

Author : Barbara Gabriel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571876
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject by : Barbara Gabriel

Download or read book Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject written by Barbara Gabriel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-10-19 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing across the disciplines of sociology, literature, film, anthropology, and museology, the contributors examine the way in which radical postmodern shifts around knowledge and value have mobilized new relations between ourselves and others and transformed a range of cultural practices. This volume includes philosophical reflections and essays on museums and memory, visual culture, and relations with the other. Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject examines the altered frameworks that simultaneously help us to meet the contemporary challenge and raise the ethical stakes of our historical moment.

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics

Author : Kenneth Mostern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646796
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography and Black Identity Politics written by Kenneth Mostern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of autobiography in twentieth-century African American culture.

Modern Selves

Author : Philip Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135779740
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Modern Selves written by Philip Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works.

The Tradition of Women's Autobiography

Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462806473
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tradition of Women's Autobiography by : Estelle C. Jelinek

Download or read book The Tradition of Women's Autobiography written by Estelle C. Jelinek and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mark Twain's Own Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299234738
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Own Autobiography written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography stands as the last of Twain’s great yarns. Here he tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence—ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: “Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.” More than the story of a literary career, this memoir is anchored in the writer’s relation to his family—what they meant to him as a husband, father, and artist. It also brims with many of Twain’s best comic anecdotes about his rambunctious boyhood in Hannibal, his misadventures in the Nevada territory, his notorious Whittier birthday speech, his travels abroad, and more. Twain published twenty-five “Chapters from My Autobiography” in the North American Review in 1906 and 1907. “I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method—form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel.” For this second edition, Michael Kiskis’s introduction references a wealth of critical work done on Twain since 1990. He also adds a discussion of literary domesticity, locating the autobiography within the history of Twain’s literary work and within Twain’s own understanding and experience of domestic concerns.

Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies

Author : Jaume Aurell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389972
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies written by Jaume Aurell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. H. Carr wrote, "study the historian before you begin to study the facts." This book approaches the life, work, ideas, debates, and the context of key 20th- and 21st-century historians through an analysis of their life writing projects viewed as historiographical sources. Merging literary studies on autobiography with theories of history, it provides a systematic and detailed analysis of the autobiographies of the most outstanding historians, from the classic texts by Giambattista Vico, Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams, to the Annales historians such as Fernand Braudel, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, to Marxist historians such as Eric Hobsbawm and Annie Kriegel, to postmodern historians such as Carolyn Steedman, Robert A. Rosenstone, Carlos Eire, Luisa Passerini, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Gerda Lerner and Sheila Fitzpatrick, and to "interventional" historians such as Geoff Eley, Jill Ker Conway, Natalie Davis and Gabrielle Spiegel. Using a comparative approach to these texts, this book identifies six historical-autobiographical styles: humanistic, biographic, ego-historical, monographic, postmodern, and interventional. By privileging historians' autobiographies, this book proposes a renewed history of historiography, one that engages the theoretical evolution of the discipline, the way history has been interpreted by historians, and the currents of thought and ideologies that have dominated and influenced its writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Autobiographical Inscriptions

Author : Barbara Ruth Rodriguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195123417
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Autobiographical Inscriptions written by Barbara Ruth Rodriguez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By engaging current approaches to the genre, Autobiographical Inscriptions breaks new ground in the field of autobiography studies. The book is centered in a discussion of the ways that innovations of form and structure contain and bolster arguments for personhood articulated by Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Adrienne Kennedy, and Cecile Pineda. Organized thematically, with each chapter focusing on central questions of form, this work pairs canonized texts with less well-known works, reading autobiographical works across cultural contexts, historical periods, and artistic media, and illustrating the stunning range of formal strategies available to and adopted by the American woman writer of color.

Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-century American Autobiography

Author : Susan Clair Imbarrato
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330122
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-century American Autobiography written by Susan Clair Imbarrato and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puritan journal and diary to the self-inventive modes of eighteenth-century writings, which in turn anticipate the more romantic voices of nineteenth-century American literature. She focuses especially on the ways in which first-person narrative displayed an ever-stronger awareness of its own subjectivity. The eighteenth century, she notes, remained closer in temper to its Puritan communal foundations than to its Romantic progeny, but there emerged, nevertheless, a sense of the individual voice that anticipated the democratic celebration of the self. Through acts of self-examination, this study shows, self-construction became possible.In tracing this development, the author focuses on six writers in three literary genres. She begins with the spiritual autobiographies of Jonathan Edwards and Elizabeth Ashbridge and then considers the travel narratives of Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist. She concludes with an examination of political autobiography as exemplified in the writings of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. These authors, Imbarrato finds, were invigorated by their choices in a social-political climate that revered the individual in proper relationship to the republic. Their writings expressed a revolutionary spirit that was neither cynical nor despairing but one that evinced a shared conviction about the bond between self and community.

Reading Autobiography

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816669856
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Reading Autobiography written by Sidonie Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: projects, and an extensive bibliography. --Book Jacket.

Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger)

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195157729
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) by : William L. Andrews

Download or read book Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook reprints a selection of important and representative reviews, criticism and scholarly analysis of Richard Wright's 'Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth' (1991).

Autobiography in Black and Brown

Author : Michael Nieto Garcia
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826355285
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography in Black and Brown written by Michael Nieto Garcia and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wright was the grandson of slaves, Richard Rodriguez the son of immigrants. One black, the other brown, each author prominently displays his race in the title of his autobiography: Black Boy and Brown. Wright was a radical left winger, while Rodriguez is widely viewed as a reactionary. Despite their differences, Michael Nieto Garcia points out, the two share a preoccupation with issues of agency, class struggle, ethnic identity, the search for community, and the quest for social justice. Garcia’s study, the first to compare these two widely read writers, argues that ethnic autobiography reflects the complexity of ethnic identity, revealing a narrative self that is bound to a visible ethnicity yet is also protean and free. These autobiographies, according to Garcia, exemplify the tensions and contradictions inherent in identity. In their presentation of the self we see the rejection not only of essentialized notions of ethnic authenticity but also of any conception of an ethnic self that is not also communally derived. The image reflected in the mirror of autobiography also reminds us that consciousness itself is altered by our reading, and that the construction of modern ethnicity is shaped to a considerable extent by print culture.