Autobiographical Occasions And Original Acts

Author : Albert E. Stone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812211278

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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts by Albert E. Stone Pdf

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.

Author : Timothy Dow Adams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469639406

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Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography by Timothy Dow Adams Pdf

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.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Thomas H. Olbricht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567645883

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Rhetoric, Scripture and Theology by Stanley E. Porter,Thomas H. Olbricht Pdf

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.

Author : James Robert Payne
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 0870497405

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Multicultural Autobiography by James Robert Payne Pdf

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 0299127842

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American Autobiography by Paul John Eakin Pdf

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.

Author : Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0299158446

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Women, Autobiography, Theory by Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson Pdf

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.

Author : Kenneth Mostern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521646790

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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics by Kenneth Mostern Pdf

A study of autobiography in twentieth-century African American culture.

Author : Barbara Gabriel,Suzan Ilcan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773571877

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Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject by Barbara Gabriel,Suzan Ilcan Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135779740

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Modern Selves by Philip Dodd Pdf

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.

Author : Estelle C. Jelinek
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462806478

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The Tradition of Women's Autobiography by Estelle C. Jelinek Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299234737

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Mark Twain's Own Autobiography by Mark Twain Pdf

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.

Author : Jaume Aurell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317389972

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Theoretical Perspectives on Historians' Autobiographies by Jaume Aurell Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Ruth Rodriguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American women authors
ISBN : 9780195123418

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Autobiographical Inscriptions by Barbara Ruth Rodriguez Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Clair Imbarrato
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1572330120

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Declarations of Independency in Eighteenth-century American Autobiography by Susan Clair Imbarrato Pdf

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.

Author : William L. Andrews,Douglas Edward Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 9780195157727

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Richard Wright's Black Boy (American Hunger) by William L. Andrews,Douglas Edward Taylor Pdf

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).