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The Writer's Book of Memory

Author : Janine Rider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136687624

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The Writer's Book of Memory by Janine Rider Pdf

Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's writers. Synthesizing research from rhetoric, psychology, philosophy, and literary and composition studies, this volume brings together many historical and contemporary theories of memory. Yet its focus is clear: memory is a generator of knowledge and a creative force which deserves attention at the beginning of and throughout the writing process. This volume emphasizes the importance of recognizing memory's powers in an age in which mass media influence us all and electronic communication changes the way we think and write. It also addresses the importance of the individual memory and voice in an age which promotes conformity. Written in a strong, lively personal manner, the book covers a great deal of scholarly material. It is never overbearing, and the extensive bibliography offers rich vistas for further study.

Write, Memory

Author : Heather Shaw
Publisher : Heather Shaw
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453870655

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Write, Memory by Heather Shaw Pdf

WRITE, MEMORY is three-part project for reflecting on, writing, and printing your life story. Though a series of questions, WRITE, MEMORY takes the reader through a process of remembering, evaluation, pattern recognition, and the selection and arrangement of life stories.In the HOW TO section, the reader becomes the writer by completing the customizable, fill-in-the-blank chapters. Chapters can then be sent to WRITE, MEMORY for the formatting and printing of 2 standard, 6 x 9 paperback books. Authors also receive a Web link where they can order as many books as they like at cost.Include up to 70 photos, plus music playlists, recipes, poems, songs, and inspirational quotes. WRITE, MEMORY is great gift for those who have always wanted to write an autobiography or memoir, and haven't known where to start. It can also be a lifesaver for those who have started an autobiography or memoir and have gotten stuck with too much material, too many choices, too little time.

The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

Author : Patrick H. Hutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137494665

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The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing by Patrick H. Hutton Pdf

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneering scholars have traveled in their research and writing on this topic: notably, the politics of commemoration (purposes and practices of public remembrance); the changing uses of memory worked by new technologies of communication (from the threshold of literacy to the digital age); the immobilizing effects of trauma upon memory (with particular attention to the remembered legacy of the Holocaust). He follows with an analysis of the implications of this scholarship for our thinking about history itself, with attention to such issues as the mnemonics of historical time, and the encounter between representation and experience in historical understanding. His book provides insight into the way interest in the concept of memory - as opposed to long-standing alternatives, such as myth, tradition, and heritage - has opened new vistas for scholarship not only in cultural history but also in shared ventures in memory studies in related fields in the humanities and social sciences.

The Long Journey Home

Author : Margaret Robison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588369222

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First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern Gothic childhood, her marriage to a handsome, brilliant man who became a split-personality alcoholic and abusive husband, the challenges she faced raising two children while having psychotic breakdowns of her own, and her struggle to regain her sanity. Robison grew up in southern Georgia, where the façade of 1950s propriety masked all sorts of demons, including alcoholism, misogyny, repressed homosexuality, and suicide. She met her husband, John Robison, in college, and together they moved up north, where John embarked upon a successful academic career and Margaret brought up the children and worked on her art and poetry. Yet her husband’s alcoholism and her collapse into psychosis, and the eventual disintegration of their marriage, took a tremendous toll on their family: Her older son, John Elder, moved out of the house when he was a teenager, and her younger son, Chris (who later renamed himself Augusten), never completed high school. When Margaret met Dr. Rodolph Turcotte, the therapist who was treating her husband, she felt understood for the first time and quickly fell under his idiosyncratic and, eventually, harmful influence. Robison writes movingly and honestly about her mental illness, her shortcomings as a parent, her difficult marriage, her traumatic relationship with Dr. Turcotte, and her two now-famous children, Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, who have each written bestselling memoirs about their family. She also writes inspiringly about her hard-earned journey to sanity and clarity. An astonishing and enduring story, The Long Journey Home is a remarkable and ultimately uplifting account of a complicated, afflicted twentieth-century family.

Writing the History of Memory

Author : Stefan Berger,Bill Niven
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849666749

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Writing the History of Memory by Stefan Berger,Bill Niven Pdf

How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history. This book includes: - Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches - Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory - Two key case studies on Holocaust memorialisation and the memory of Communism

Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521816113

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Johnson, Writing, and Memory by Greg Clingham Pdf

Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.

Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing

Author : Brinda Mehta
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0815631359

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Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing by Brinda Mehta Pdf

This volume carefully assesses fixed notions of Arab womanhood by exploring the complexities of Arab women’s lives as portrayed in literature. Encompassing women writers and critics from Arab, French, and English traditions, it forges a transnational Arab feminist consciousness. Brinda Mehta examines the significance of memory rituals in women’s writings, such as the importance of water and purification rites in Islam and how these play out in the women’s space of the hammam (Turkish bath). Mehta shows how sensory experiences connect Arab women to their past. Specific chapters raise awareness of the experiences of Palestinian women in exile and under occupation, Bedouin and desert rituals, and women’s views on conflict in Iraq and Lebanon, and the compatibility between Islam and feminism. At once provocative and enlightening, this work is a groundbreaking addition to the timely field of modern Arab women’s writing and criticism and Arab literary studies.

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing

Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030020989

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Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing by Erica L. Johnson Pdf

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional archival research through the use of “academic memoir.” This theoretical piece is then applied to memoir works by Caribbean writers Dionne Brand and Patrick Chamoiseau, and the final case study in the book interprets as memorial art Kara Walker’s ephemeral 80,000 pound sugar sculpture of 2014. Memory as method; memory as archive; memorial as affect: this book looks at the interplay between archival sources on the one hand, and the affective memories, both personal and collective, that flow from, around, and into the constantly shifting record of the past.

Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory

Author : Marilyn Metta
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography as a literary form
ISBN : 303430515X

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Writing Against, Alongside and Beyond Memory by Marilyn Metta Pdf

The thesis will conclude by bringing together reflections on the political, social and therapeutic implications of writing personal life narratives, the limitations of reflexive research methodologies and knowledge-making, and the implications of lifewriting research for feminist scholarship, research and practice.

Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe

Author : Simona Mitroiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137485526

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Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe by Simona Mitroiu Pdf

This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts. Through well-documented case studies the volume showcases the plurality of approaches available for analyzing the relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.

Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing

Author : Marja Sorvari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030958374

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Displacement and (Post)memory in Post-Soviet Women’s Writing by Marja Sorvari Pdf

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia.

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Author : Eva C. Karpinski,Jennifer Henderson,Ian Sowton,Ray Ellenwood
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554588626

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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory by Eva C. Karpinski,Jennifer Henderson,Ian Sowton,Ray Ellenwood Pdf

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard’s work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. Their essays resonate with Godard’s innovative scholarship situated at the intersection of such fields as literary studies, cultural studies, translation studies, feminist theory, arts criticism, social activism, institutional analysis, and public memory. In pursuit of unexpected linkages and connections, the essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard’s transdisciplinary practice that has been extremely influential in the way that it framed questions and modeled interventions for the study of Canadian, Québécois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. The authors work with the archives ranging from Canadian government policies and documents, to publications concerning white supremacist organizations in Southern Ontario, online materials from a Toronto-based transgender arts festival, a photographic mural installation commemorating the Montreal Massacre, and the works of such writers and artists as Marie Clements, Nicole Brossard, France Daigle, Nancy Huston, Yvette Nolan, Gail Scott, Denise Desautels, Louise Warren, Rebecca Belmore, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, and Janet Cardiff.

Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing

Author : Alan Kirk
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467466226

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Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing by Alan Kirk Pdf

Breaking a 200-year impasse on the origins of the gospels Biblical scholars want to get to the roots of the gospels—the very earliest memories of Jesus and his world. Though scholars know about all the major concepts at work—Q, the Urgospel, priority—it seems like a definitive solution to the Synoptic problem is hopelessly unattainable. Why the impasse? And where do we go from here? In Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing, Alan Kirk guides us through the history of biblical scholars’ quest for the authentic source. Kirk reveals that outdated assumptions about ancient media realities have caused the past two centuries of academic deadlock. Using cutting-edge scholarship on orality, memory, and tradition formation, he shows how the origins of the gospels may be found in the memory practices of the earliest Jesus communities. Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing is an essential resource for scholars and students looking to better understand this complex and rapidly changing field.

Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing

Author : Jopi Nyman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004342064

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Displacement, Memory, and Travel in Contemporary Migrant Writing by Jopi Nyman Pdf

This book examines contemporary literary representations of global mobility. It pays particular attention to refugee writing and displacement, migration and memory, and new European identities, and revises the field of postcolonial studies.

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets

Author : Margaret Kimball
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780063068285

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And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball Pdf

Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother’s Day—and this becomes one of many things Kimball’s family never speaks about. As she searches for answers nearly thirty years later, Kimball embarks on a thrilling visual journey into the secrets her family has kept for decades. Using old diary entries, hospital records, home videos, and other archives, Margaret pieces together a narrative map of her childhood—her mother’s bipolar disorder, her grandmother’s institutionalization, and her brother’s increasing struggles—in an attempt to understand what no one likes to talk about: the fractures in her family. Both a coming-of-age story about family dysfunction and a reflection on mental health, AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS is funny, poignant, and deeply inspiring in its portrayal of what drives a family apart and what keeps them together.