Pseudo-Memoirs

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227581
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Pseudo-Memoirs by : Rochelle Tobias

Download or read book Pseudo-Memoirs written by Rochelle Tobias and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the verisimilitude of the novel derives not from its object but from the subjectivity at its base. What generates the plausibility of fiction is not the referentiality of its depictions but the intentionality of consciousness. Edmund Husserl developed the idea that consciousness is always intentional in the sense that it is directed outside itself toward something that it does not find so much as it constitutes as an object. Pseudo-memoirs reveal the full implications of this position in their double structure as the tale of their own telling or the fiction of life-writing. In so doing they reveal how the world of fiction is constructed, but more important they bring to the fore the idealist premises that fuel the novel and guarantee its truth, even when it remains an invention of the imagination. Rochelle Tobias explores novels by Thomas Mann, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and W. G. Sebald in conjunction with philosophical and theoretical texts by René Descartes, Husserl, Friedrich Nietzsche, György Łukács, Roland Barthes, and Maurice Blanchot.

Pseudo-Memoirs

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803215924
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pseudo-Memoirs written by Rochelle Tobias and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pseudo-Memoir explores the twentieth-century return of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century"--

Memoirs of a Book Thief

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Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781910593639
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of a Book Thief written by and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in French by Futuropolis in 2015"--Copyright page.

Academica--Plato, Philip of Opus, and the Pseudo-Platonic Epinomis

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Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book Academica--Plato, Philip of Opus, and the Pseudo-Platonic Epinomis written by Leonardo Tarán and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Greek text of Epinomis (p. 182-202)

The Eighteenth-century French Novel

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719001741
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis The Eighteenth-century French Novel by : Vivienne Mylne

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Total Pages : 1044 pages
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Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639408
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Book Synopsis Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography by : Timothy Dow Adams

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 222 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.

Self Impression

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199579768
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Book Synopsis Self Impression by : Max Saunders

Download or read book Self Impression written by Max Saunders and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life Volume II: The After-War World Max Saunders --

Harem Histories

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348691
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Harem Histories by : Marilyn Booth

Download or read book Harem Histories written by Marilyn Booth and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.

The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441145451
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds written by Simon Burrows and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death. Not surprisingly, such sensational material has attracted the attention of enthusiasts, scholars and literateurs to 'the strange case of the chevalier d'Eon'. He has also attracted the attention of psychologists and sexologists, and for most of the last century his gender transformation has been viewed through a Freudian lens. His cross-dressing, it was usually assumed, must have a psychosexual explanation. Until the second half of the twentieth century the terms 'Eonist' and 'Eonism' were the standard English words for transvestites and transvestism respectively, but 'Eonism' was also, thanks to Havelock Ellis, widely regarded as a psychological condition or compulsion. However, in the mid-twentieth century, new ideas about gender-identity disorders led to d'Eon being redefined not as a transvestite, but a transsexual - a person who considers their sex to have been 'misassigned'. The essays in this collection contribute to d'Eon's rehabilitation as a figure worthy of scholarly attention and display a variety of disciplinary approaches. Drawing on new research into d'Eon's life, this volume offers original and nuanced readings of how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.

Sempre Susan

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698172809
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Sempre Susan written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award. "The masterpiece of the ‘I knew Susan’ minigenre" – A.O. Scott, The New York Times A poignant, intimate memoir of one of America’s most esteemed and fascinating cultural figures, and a deeply felt tribute. Sigrid Nunez was an aspiring writer when she first met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, blinding intelligence, and edgy personal style. Sontag introduced Nunez to her son, the writer David Rieff, and the two began dating. Soon Nunez moved into the apartment that Rieff and Sontag shared. As Sontag told Nunez, “Who says we have to live like everyone else?” Sontag’s influence on Nunez, who went on to become a successful novelist, would be profound. Described by Nunez as “a natural mentor” who saw educating others as both a moral obligation and a source of endless pleasure, Sontag inevitably infected those around her with her many cultural and intellectual passions. In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, “someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer’s vocation.” Published more than six years after Sontag’s death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802094759
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics by : William Calin

Download or read book Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics written by William Calin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Béguin, Jean Rousset, C.S. Lewis, F.O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. William Calin first considers the achievements of each critic, examining his methodology and basic presuppositions as well as the critiques marshalled against him. Calin explores their relation to history, to canon-formation, and to our current theoretical debates. He then goes on to show how all eight form a current in the history of criticism related to both humanism and modernism. Underscoring the international, cosmopolitian aspects of literary scholarship in the twentieth century, The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics brings together humanist critical traditions from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America and reveals the surprising extent to which, in various languages and academic systems, critics were posing similar questions and offering a gamut of similar responses.

Bunk

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979823
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Bunk written by Kevin Young and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.

Translating Others (Volume 1)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317640454
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Book Synopsis Translating Others (Volume 1) by : Theo Hermans

Download or read book Translating Others (Volume 1) written by Theo Hermans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both in the sheer breadth and in the detail of their coverage the essays in these two volumes challenge hegemonic thinking on the subject of translation. Engaging throughout with issues of representation in a postmodern and postcolonial world, Translating Others investigates the complex processes of projection, recognition, displacement and 'othering' effected not only by translation practices but also by translation studies as developed in the West. At the same time, the volumes document the increasing awareness the the world is peopled by others who also translate, often in ways radically different from and hitherto largely ignored by the modes of translating conceptualized in Western discourses. The languages covered in individual contributions include Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Rajasthani, Somali, Swahili, Tamil, Tibetan and Turkish as well as the Europhone literatures of Africa, the tongues of medieval Europe, and some major languages of Egypt's five thousand year history. Neighbouring disciplines invoked include anthropology, semiotics, museum and folklore studies, librarianship and the history of writing systems. Contributors to Volume 1: Doris Bachmann-Medick, Cosima Bruno, Ovidi Carbonell, Martha Cheung, G. Gopinathan, Eva Hung, Alexandra Lianeri, Carol Maier, Christi Ann Marrill, Paolo Rambelli, Myriam Salama-Carr, Ubaldo Stecconi and Maria Tymoczko.

The companions of Pickle

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The companions of Pickle written by Andrew Lang and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The companions of Pickle" by Andrew Lang. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Microgenre

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345826
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Microgenre written by Anne H. Stevens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry...microgenres come in all varieties and turn up in every form of media under the sun, tailor-made for enthusiasts of all walks of life. Coming into use in the last decade or so, the term "microgenre" classifies increasingly niche-marketed worlds in popular music, fiction, television, and the Internet. Netflix has recently highlighted our fascination with the ultra-niche genre with hilariously specific classifications -- “independent supernatural dramedy featuring a strong female lead” – that can sometimes hit a little too close to home. Each contribution in this collection introduces readers to a different microgenre, drawn from a range of historical periods and from a variety of media. The Microgenre presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific. It also affirms, in colorful detail, what most people suspect but have trouble fathoming in an increasingly homogenized and commercial West: that imaginative projects are just that, imaginative, diverse, and sometimes completely and hilariously inexplicable.