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Autobiographical Tightropes

Leah D. Hewitt
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Author : Leah D. Hewitt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803272588

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"In order to write" said Simone de Beauvoir, "the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted." She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century—Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé—illustrate that producing autobiography is like performing a tightrope act on the slippery line between fact and fiction. Autobiographical Tightropes emphasizes the tension in the works of these major writers as they move in and out of "experience" and "literature," violating the neat boundaries between genres and confusing the distinctions between remembering and creating. Focusing on selected works, Leah D. Hewitt for the first time anywhere explores the connections among the authors. In doing so she shows how contemporary women's autobiography in France links with feminist issues, literary tradition and trends, and postmodern theories of writing. In light of these theories Hewitt offers a new reading of de Beauvoir's memoirs and reveals how her attempt to represent the past faithfully is undone by irony, by literary and "feminine" detours. Other analysts of Nathalie Sarraute's writing have dwelt mainly on formal considerations of the New Novel, but Hewitt exposes a repressed, forbidden feminine aspect in her literary innovations. Unlike Sarraute, Duras cannot be connected with just one literary movement, political stance, style, or kind of feminism because her writing, largely autobiographical, is marked by chameleon like transformations. The chapters on Wittig and Condé show how, within the bounds of feminism, lesbians and women of color challenge the individualistic premises of autobiography. Hewitt demonstrates that, despite vast differences among these five writers, all of them reveal in their autobiographical works the self's need of a fictive other.

The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

Evy Varsamopoulou
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Author : Evy Varsamopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351726542

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The Poetics of the Kunstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime by Evy Varsamopoulou Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: This study of the poetics of the Romantic K nstlerinroman (female artist novel) brings to the foreground its salient metafictional discourse on the aesthetics of the sublime, ever since its beginnings in Madame de Sta l's "Corinne ou L'Italie". The book presents detailed readings of H.D.'s "Palimpsest", Christa Wolf's "Nachdenken ber Christa T." and Marguerite Duras' "L'Amant" in a dialogue with Kant, Freud, Lacan, Cixous, Derrida and other philosophers, theorists, literary critics and writers. Each novel is explored in terms of its generic affiliations, its reflections on the role of literature and the writer in society and its aesthetic discourse on the sublime. The book stages an inquiry into the relation between genre, the sublime, gender and literary history from which emerge insights into the conditions of subjectivity underlying the experience and communication of the sublime.

Against Autobiography

Lia Nicole Brozgal
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Author : Lia Nicole Brozgal
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496208989

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Against Autobiography by Lia Nicole Brozgal Pdf

The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi, like that of many francophone Maghrebian writers, is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi’s texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities. Calling attention to the ambiguous status of autobiographical discursive and textual elements in Memmi’s work, Brozgal shifts the focus from the author to theoretical questions. Against Autobiography places Memmi’s writing and thought in dialogue with several major critical shifts in the late twentieth-century literary and cultural landscape. These shifts include the crisis of the authorial subject; the interrogation of the form of the novel; the resistance to the hegemony of vision; and the critique of colonialism. Showing how Memmi’s novels and essays produce theories that resonate both within and beyond their original contexts, Brozgal argues for allowing works of francophone Maghrebi literature to be read as complex literary objects, that is, not simply as ethnographic curios but as generating elements of literary theory on their own terms.

Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century

Ursula Fanning
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Author : Ursula Fanning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930327

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Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century by Ursula Fanning Pdf

This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favor of an argument based on the cultural, linguistic, and literary marginalization of women writers within the Italian context. It is concerned with Italian women writers’ various ways of grappling with constructions of subjectivity throughout the century and sets out to explore them. Fanning reads autobiographical writing as subject to many of the same constraints as fiction and, in doing so, draws attention to the significance of the recurring use of the terms “pure” and “impure” in many critical and theoretical discussions of the autobiographical (where “pure” is used to suggest a truthful representation of a life, while “impure” suggests the messy undertaking of mixing lived experience with fiction). Recurring patterns and paradigms are found in the works of the various writers considered (eighteen in all), and these paradigms are analyzed through close readings of their works. These close readings offer insights into approaches to the constructions of subjectivity in the narratives and are informed by feminist theories. The chapters focus on selves in relationship, taking their lead from the patterns unfolding in the writers’ work, hence the subjects are constructed as daughters (with different views of the self in relation to fathers and mothers), within the confines of the romantic relationship (which involves reconsiderations and rewritings of the romance plot), as maternal subjects, and as writers (with an eye on their relationship to the literary canon, as well as to the relationship with readers). This book argues that there is such a thing as gendered subjectivity and that its constructions may be traced through the texts analyzed.

Women, Autobiography, Theory

Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson
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Author : Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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.

Consuming Autobiographies

Claire Boyle
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Author : Claire Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351195294

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Consuming Autobiographies by Claire Boyle Pdf

"Since 1975, French literary writing has been marked by an autobiographical turn which has seen authors increasingly often tap into the vein of what the French term ecriture de soi. This coincides, paradoxically, with the 'death of autobiography', as these authors self-consciously distance themselves and their writings from conventional autobiography, founding a 'nouvelle autobiographie' where the very possibility of autobiographical expression is questioned. In the first book-length study in English to address this phenomenon, Claire Boyle sheds a new light on this hostility toward autobiography through a series of ground-breaking studies of estrangement in autobiographical works by major post-war authors Nathalie Sarraute, Georges Perec, Jean Genet and Helene Cixous. She identifies autobiography as a site of conflict between writer and reader, as authors struggle to assert the unknowableness of their identity in the face of a readership resolutely desiring privileged knowledge. Autobiography emerges as a deeply troubling genre for authors, with the reader as an antagonistic consumer of the autobiographical self."

Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean

Louise Hardwick
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Author : Louise Hardwick
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846317941

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Childhood, Autobiography and the Francophone Caribbean by Louise Hardwick Pdf

This book explores a major modern turn in Francophone Caribbean literature towards récits d’enfance (narratives of childhood) and asks why this occurred post-1990.

Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies

Edgard Sankara
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Author : Edgard Sankara
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813931760

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Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies by Edgard Sankara Pdf

Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-section of postcolonial francophone writing from Africa and the Caribbean in order to examine and compare for the first time their transnational reception. Sankara not only compares the ways in which a wide selection of autobiographies were received locally (as well as in France) but also juxtaposes reception by the colonized and the colonizer to show how different meanings were assigned to the works after publication. Sankara’s geographical and cultural coverage of Africa and its diaspora is rich, with separate chapters devoted to the autobiographies of Hampâté Bâ, Valentin Mudimbé, Kesso Barry, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, and Maryse Condé. The author combines close reading, reception study, and postcolonial theory to present an insightful survey of the literary connections among these autobiographers as well as a useful point of departure for further exploration of the genre itself, of the role of reception studies in postcolonial criticism, and of the stance that postcolonial francophone writers choose to take regarding their communities of origin. Modern Language Initiative

Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography

Madalina Akli
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Author : Madalina Akli
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433103249

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Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography by Madalina Akli Pdf

This book studies three autobiographies, each of which is at least partially devoid of chronological structure: Sartre's The Words, Perec's W or The Memory of Childhood, and Sarraute's Childhood. Calendar-based order, traditionally associated with autobiography, fails to provide the coherence the readers expect. Hence, readers must create a sense of coherence at another level by using their conceptual resources. Conventional and Original Metaphors in French Autobiography reveals that in these literary texts coherence is maintained based on the exploitation of conventional metaphors taken from everyday language, which the autobiographers transform in a creative yet familiar manner. These common metaphors offer guidance to readers and establish coherence between the shared life experiences of reader and autobiographer. In the course of reading, the autobiographers' and the readers' life experiences overlap through familiar metaphors, which serve as organizational devices in writing and as guiding principles in reading.

Borderlines

Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir
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Author : Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201063

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Borderlines by Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir Pdf

Borderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdóttir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography’s relationship to postmodernism by investigating themes such as memory and crossing cultural divides, the use of photographs in autobiography and the role of narrative in life-writing. This work is of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, postmodernism and contemporary life-writing.

Writing against Death

Susan Bainbrigge
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Author : Susan Bainbrigge
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202244

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Writing against Death by Susan Bainbrigge Pdf

Much has been written on Simone de Beauvoir, one of France’s leading intellectual figures of the 20th century. The sheer volume of her autobiographical writings testifies to her indefatigable questioning of the nature of existence and her personal and public engagement in the world over the best part of a century. This study aims to re-evaluate her extensive autobiographical œuvre, exploring its place in relation to the French autobiographical canon, and in the light of recent theorisations of autobiography. It presents readings which engage critically with existentialism, feminist theory, and autobiography studies generally, in particular focusing on the question of ‘autothanatography’, a term developed by theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Louis Marin. A new reading of the autobiographies via the lens of thanatos is presented with questions of gender in mind, and the nature of autobiography as genre is also explored more fully with particular attention paid to narrative voice. Close readings of the autobiographical œuvre combine with contextual details, critical overviews and links to recent developments in critiques of Beauvoir’s fiction and philosophy. The study would be of particular interest to scholars in the following areas: 20th century French literature and culture; Autobiography studies; Literary theory; existentialism; Women’s studies.

Spoils of War

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting,Renée T. White
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Author : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting,Renée T. White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780847686056

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Spoils of War by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting,Renée T. White Pdf

In Spoils of War, a diverse group of distinguished contributors suggest that acts of aggression resulting from the racism and sexism inherent in social institutions can be viewed as a sort of 'war, ' experienced daily by women of color

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Margaretta Jolly
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Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3905 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787430

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Divided Lives

Cynthia A. Crane
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Author : Cynthia A. Crane
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1403961557

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Divided Lives by Cynthia A. Crane Pdf

This book brings together the horrifying real life stories of women who woke up one day and were not who they thought they were. The government changed and they suddenly no longer had the right kind of blood, the right name, the right family background, the right physical features to be considered a member of society, city, or state. These stories are from German women who were a part of a Jewish-Christian "mixed marriage" and were subsequently persecuted under the Nuremberg laws. Hitler called them "mischling"- half-breeds, however, they have often been passed over in studies of the Holocaust--perhaps because they are often not considered "real Jews." But these women are still struggling with the nightmares of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, the loss of family in concentration camps, and with their own identity-divided between their Jewish and Christian roots. Often their Jewish background was revealed to them only after Hitler's laws were passed. These are the narratives of eight women who remained in Germany, struggling to reclaim their German heritage and their cultural and religious identity. The narratives are compelling and sensitively written, addressing questions of cultural and ethnic identity.

The Tightrope Walker

Anne Wilkinson
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Author : Anne Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106010695424

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The Tightrope Walker by Anne Wilkinson Pdf

From December 1947 to July 1956, the years during which she wrote her most successful poetry, Wilkinson kept journals; in due course she also wrote an autobiography, part of which appeared in a literary magazine shortly after she died. Joan Coldwell brings together the complete text of the autobiography with the poet's journals, some samples of her poetry, and a moving exchange of letters between Wilkinson and her mother. The journals vividly reveal the inner workings of the writer's mind and her struggles to create in a difficult environment. With an immediacy and power that only journals can achieve, these writings explore the nature of the creative process in a context of daily realities that are often harsh and sometimes heart-breaking. The autobiography tells the story in a different way, rearranged to fit the forms of a 'legitimate' genre.