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Book Synopsis Objects of Discourse by : John R. Wallace
Download or read book Objects of Discourse written by John R. Wallace and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace analyzes the four main 10th- and 11th-century Heian memoirs by women for their individual characteristics and what they suggest of Heian literature more broadly. He treats the memoirists not as passive objects of men's romantic play but rather as individuals who strategically confront their difficult life situations in part by writing about their experiences. Wallace further finds in the memoirs a rich resource for understanding rhetorical and structural features of Japan's high classical period literary prose. After taking up historical issues such as the newly developed vernacular scripts and pre-texts of the memoirs, Wallace probes Gossamer Years, Lady Izumi's Story, Lady Murasaki's Journal, and The Sarashina Memoir for their stylistic aspects, rhetorical devices, Foucault's 'networks of power', and narrative structure, respectively. The result is a fascinating study of Heian women writers.
Book Synopsis Discourses by the late James Peddie ... With a memoir of his life, by ... W. Peddie by : James PEDDIE (D.D.)
Download or read book Discourses by the late James Peddie ... With a memoir of his life, by ... W. Peddie written by James PEDDIE (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Academic Lives by : Cynthia G. Franklin
Download or read book Academic Lives written by Cynthia G. Franklin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Although the memoir form has been discussed within the flourishing field of life writing, academic memoirs have received little critical scrutiny. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Bérubé, Cathy N. Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick, Academic Lives considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry. Cynthia G. Franklin finds that academic memoirs provide unparalleled ways to unmask the workings of the academy at a time when it is dealing with a range of crises, including attacks on intellectual freedom, discontentment with the academic star system, and budget cuts. Franklin considers how academic memoirs have engaged with a core of defining concerns in the humanities: identity politics and the development of whiteness studies in the 1990s; the impact of postcolonial studies; feminism and concurrent anxieties about pedagogy; and disability studies and the struggle to bring together discourses on the humanities and human rights. The turn back toward humanism that Franklin finds in some academic memoirs is surreptitious or frankly nostalgic; others, however, posit a wide-ranging humanism that seeks to create space for advocacy in the academic and other institutions in which we are all unequally located. These memoirs are harbingers for the critical turn to explore interrelations among humanism, the humanities, and human rights struggles.
Book Synopsis The Man Behind the Discourse by : Joann Follett Mortensen
Download or read book The Man Behind the Discourse written by Joann Follett Mortensen and published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was King Follett? When he was fatally injured digging a well in Nauvoo in March 1844, why did Joseph Smith use his death to deliver the monumental doctrinal sermon now known as the King Follett Discourse? Much has been written about the sermon, but little about King. Although King left no personal writings, Joann Follett Mortensen, King's third great-granddaughter, draws on more than thirty years of research in civic and Church records and in the journals and letters of King's peers to piece together King's story from his birth in New Hampshire and moves westward where, in Ohio, he and his wife, Louisa, made the life-shifting decision to accept the new Mormon religion. From that point, this humble, hospitable, and hardworking family followed the Church into Missouri where their devotion to Joseph Smith was refined and burnished. King was the last Mormon prisoner in Missouri to be released from jail. According to family lore, King was one of the Prophet's bodyguards. He was also a Danite, a Mason, and an officer in the Nauvoo Legion. After his death, Louisa and their children settled in Iowa where some associated with the Cutlerities and the RLDS Church; others moved on to California. One son joined the Mormon Battalion and helped found Mormon communities in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. While King would have died virtually unknown had his name not been attached to the discourse, his life story reflects the reality of all those whose faith became the foundation for a new religion. His biography is more than one man's life story. It is the history of the early Restoration itself.
Book Synopsis Repossessing the World by : Helen M. Buss
Download or read book Repossessing the World written by Helen M. Buss and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women’s personal lives but also of their desire to repossess important parts of our culture, in which women’s stories have not mattered. Beginning with her own motivations for writing memoirs, Helen M. Buss examines the many kinds of memoir written by contemporary women: memoirs about growing up, memoirs about traumatic events, about relationships, about work. In writing memoirs, these women publicly assert that their lives have mattered. They reshape the memoir, a form as old as the middle ages and as young as today, into a social discourse that blends the personal with the political, the self with the significant other, literature with history, and fiction with autobiography and essay. Buss urges readers to use their reading experience to help themselves understand and write the significance of their own lives. Repossessing the World is the first book-length critical inquiry into women’s use of a form that has often been dismissed as less important than autobiography, less professional than the novel, and less intellectual than the formal essay. Buss demonstrates that the memoir makes its own art, not only through selective borrowing from these genres but also through the unique way that the tripartite narrative voice of the memoir constructs the personal and public experience of the memorist as significant to our cultural moment.
Book Synopsis Sermons by ... A. Abbot ... With a memoir of his life, by S. Everett by : Abiel ABBOT (D.D., of Beverly, Mass.)
Download or read book Sermons by ... A. Abbot ... With a memoir of his life, by S. Everett written by Abiel ABBOT (D.D., of Beverly, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoir of the Life of Henry-Francis D'Aguessau, Chancellor of France by : Charles Butler
Download or read book Memoir of the Life of Henry-Francis D'Aguessau, Chancellor of France written by Charles Butler and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the pioneering French codifier Henry-Francis D'Aguesseau, the first in English, was written at a time when the English and American legal communities were keenly interested in codification. Indeed, Butler [1750-1832] emphasizes this aspect of his subject's career. D'Aguesseau [1668-1751], a pupil of Jean Domat, served three terms as chancellor of France. He was renowned for his forensic eloquence and was a prolific legal writer. His attempt to codify French law was unsuccessful. This project led to several important reforms, however, especially in such areas as donations, testaments, succession and procedure. A prolific writer on legal and ecclesiastical subjects, Butler is best known for his completion of Hargrave's edition of Coke's Institutes, which are available as Lawbook Exchange Reprints.
Book Synopsis Memoir of the late Mrs. A. Johnstone ... Second edition by : Mrs. Ann JOHNSTONE (of Willow Park, Greenock.)
Download or read book Memoir of the late Mrs. A. Johnstone ... Second edition written by Mrs. Ann JOHNSTONE (of Willow Park, Greenock.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memoir of the Late Mrs. Ann Johnstone, Willow Park, Greenock by : Ann Johnstone
Download or read book Memoir of the Late Mrs. Ann Johnstone, Willow Park, Greenock written by Ann Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Discourses: to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author by : Archibald BENNIE
Download or read book Discourses: to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author written by Archibald BENNIE and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Select Discourses of S. E. Dwight with a Memoir of His Life by : W. T. Dwight
Download or read book Select Discourses of S. E. Dwight with a Memoir of His Life written by W. T. Dwight and published by . This book was released on with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Signifying Bodies by : G. Thomas Couser
Download or read book Signifying Bodies written by G. Thomas Couser and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Rev. Andrew Fuller: with a Memoir of his Life, by Andrew Gunton Fuller: Reprinted from the Third London Edition by : Andrew Fuller
Download or read book The Complete Works of Rev. Andrew Fuller: with a Memoir of his Life, by Andrew Gunton Fuller: Reprinted from the Third London Edition written by Andrew Fuller and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Book Synopsis Memoir of the life and labours of the late Josias Wilson, London by : H. Hastings
Download or read book Memoir of the life and labours of the late Josias Wilson, London written by H. Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flyover Lives written by Diane Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid . . . quest for roots. . . . Splendid.” —The New York Times Book Review Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of venturing off to see the world—and did. Now having traveled widely and lived part-time in Paris for many years, she is stung when a French friend teases her about Americans’ indifference to history. Could it be true? The j’accuse haunts Diane and inspires her to dig into her family’s past, working back from the Friday night football of her youth to the adventures illuminated in the letters and memoirs of her stalwart pioneer ancestors—beginning with a lonely young soldier who came to America from France in 1711. As enchanting as her bestselling novels, Flyover Lives is a moving examination of identity and the “wispy but material” family ghosts who shape us. As Johnson pays tribute to her deep Midwestern roots, she captures the perpetual tug-of-war between the magnetic pull of home and our lust for escape and self-invention.
Book Synopsis A Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D. by : Samuel G. Drake
Download or read book A Memoir of the Rev. Cotton Mather, D. D. written by Samuel G. Drake and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Narrow Door written by Paul Lisicky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: environmental catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, and local disturbances make an unsettling backdrop to the pressing concerns of Denise's cancer diagnosis and Paul's impending breakup. Lisicky's compassionate heart and resilience seem all the stronger in the face of such searing losses. His survival--hard-won, unsentimental, authentic--proves that in turning toward loss, we embrace life.
