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Achieving Autobiographical Form

Author : Nicholas Meihuizen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311041
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Achieving Autobiographical Form written by Nicholas Meihuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone. Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self’s immersion in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world. The quality of the resultant self-scrutiny enables the author to transform everyday reflex into the act of attention that results in formal achievement, a uniquely crafted structure. Meihuizen’s book helps demonstrate how each piece of autobiographical writing under consideration in it (works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee) discovers a unique form.

An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

Author : Dionne Brand
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772125156
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading written by Dionne Brand and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life that attends to its own expression and its own consciousness.

My Autobiography

Author : Charlie Chaplin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book My Autobiography written by Charlie Chaplin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography

Author : James Olney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856310
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography written by James Olney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Intimate Critique

Author : Diane P. Freedman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312925
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Intimate Critique written by Diane P. Freedman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to have so little to do with the highly personal and deeply felt experience of literature. The Intimate Critique marks a movement away from this tradition. With their rich spectrum of personal and passionate voices, these essays challenge and ultimately breach the boundaries between criticism and narrative, experience and expression, literature and life. Grounded in feminism and connected to the race, class, and gender paradigms in cultural studies, the twenty-six contributors to this volume--including Jane Tompkins, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Shirley Nelson Garner, and Shirley Goek-Lin Lim--respond in new, refreshing ways to literary subjects ranging from Homer to Freud, Middlemarch to The Woman Warrior, Shiva Naipaul to Frederick Douglass. Revealing the beliefs and formative life experiences that inform their essays, these writers characteristically recount the process by which their opinions took shape--a process as conducive to self-discovery as it is to critical insight. The result--which has been referred to as "personal writing," "experimental critical writing," or "intellectual autobiography"--maps a dramatic change in the direction of literary criticism. Contributors. Julia Balen, Dana Beckelman, Ellen Brown, Sandra M. Brown, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton, Suzanne Bunkers, Peter Carlton, Brenda Daly, Victoria Ekanger, Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, Shirley Nelson Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Melody Graulich, Gail Griffin, Dolan Hubbard, Kendall, Susan Koppelman, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Linda Robertson, Carol Taylor, Jane Tompkins, Cheryl Torsney, Trace Yamamoto, Frances Murphy Zauhar

The Philosophy of Autobiography

Author : Christopher Cowley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626792X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Autobiography written by Christopher Cowley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book promises to be the first of its kind: a philosophical investigation of autobiographical writing. All of us are autobiographers at least some of the time, and all of us crave certain kinds of recognition and confirmation from others, just as we fear blame and reproach from those who know us well. The philosophy of autobiography examines this fundamental story-telling process and its place in our lives. As such it straddles a number of long-standing philosophical questions, having to do with the meaning of life, the problems of autonomy and responsibility and authenticity, the nature of self-deception and bad faith, the structure of the self and its existence through time, the question of the reliability and meaning of memory, and the problem of understanding another person and imaginatively identifying with him. The contributors to the volume are mostly philosophers, but many of them have interests outside philosophy and have been informed by research findings from literary theory and from psychiatry. Some of the contributors are also literary theorists, and one of them has even published autobiographical work. Contributors also examine specific autobiographies and diaries, of philosophers and non-philosophers, as well as fictional works using an autobiographical format, in order to explore the philosophical implications and presuppositions of the genre. The result is a most useful and productive interdisciplinary exchange."

The Autobiographer's Handbook

Author : Jennifer Traig
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805087130
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiographer's Handbook written by Jennifer Traig and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... You're invited to a roundtable discussion with today's most successful memoirists"--P. [4] of cover.

The Year in San Fernando

Author : Michael Anthony
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435989439
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book The Year in San Fernando written by Michael Anthony and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Francis gets a chance to go for a year to San Fernando to work as a servant-companion to old Mrs. Chandler, but he has never seen a town before or been away from the warmth of his family.

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Author : Fernando Pessoa
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226948
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition written by Fernando Pessoa and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity

Author : Xiaoling Yao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003802281
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity written by Xiaoling Yao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent studies on life writing, memory, the narrative turn, and psychology, Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrad’s autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction within a historical and cultural context. This unique perspective makes the book particularly attractive for students, teachers, and researchers of Conrad. Contrary to the prevalent "achievement-and-decline" paradigm that implies a decline in quality of Conrad’s works in his later period, this volume contends that Conrad’s later works continue to engage with the complex questions of memory, identity, and culture, demonstrating a sustained commitment to exploring the intricacies of the human experiences. Essential reading for Conrad enthusiasts, but also for those who seek to explore how memory studies in literature intersect with psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies.

The Z Factor

Author : Subhash Chandra
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9351773256
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Z Factor written by Subhash Chandra and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of one of India's most prominent businessmen The pioneer who gate-crashed his way to the top Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group, is an unlikely mogul. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider, repeatedly aiming high and breaking into businesses where he was considered an interloper. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, Chandra had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Always a risk-taker, Chandra then had the vision of getting into broadcasting early, even as established media players failed to see its potential. His Zee TV, India's first private Indian TV channel, changed the rules of the game and tickled the fancy of a public starved of entertainment. Several gutsy initiatives followed, though not all of them were successful. Chandra's attempts to launch satellite telephony and a cricket league came a cropper. But the man continues to reinvent himself; he is now also focusing on infrastructure and smart cities. This is an unusually candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who came to Delhi at age twenty with seventeen rupees in his pocket. Today, he has a net worth of $6.3 billion and annual group revenues of about $3 billion.

The Story of My Heart; My Autobiography

Author : Richard Jefferies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Story of My Heart; My Autobiography written by Richard Jefferies and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For Those Who Come After

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066069
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book For Those Who Come After written by Arnold Krupat and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-06-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing.

Mark Twain's Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Autobiography written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theology as Autobiography

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532688849
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Theology as Autobiography written by Colby Dickinson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. Yet these voices have the potential to reshape the ways in which each of these fields function. To find out what it means to stand before God with all of one's humanity on display is to engage in not only the act of confession, but to demonstrate a bold theological reflection that needs to be more explicitly understood. By turning to spiritual autobiographies as theological source texts, we learn to place our emphasis where it matters most, on the people whose lives of faith move us deeply and cause us to re-examine our own lives in light of their witness. Moving through a range of ancient, early modern, and contemporary spiritual writers in order to demonstrate a profound connection that unites them all, this book portrays how a critical self-examination of one's most personal, internal fractures (our "poverty" as it were) is the only way to develop a life of faith--the dual meaning of the word "confession," which expresses both a revealing of one's sins, or brokenness, and the articulation of what one believes.

Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

Author : Aimable Twagilimana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317732324
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition written by Aimable Twagilimana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110381486
Total Pages : 2857 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction written by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 2857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.