Essays on Life Writing : : From Genre to Critical Practice /

Essays on Life Writing : : From Genre to Critical Practice / / ed. by Marlene Kadar.

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Life writing is the most flexible and open term available for autobiographical fragments and other kinds of autobiographical-seeming texts. It includes the conventional genres of autobiography, journals, memoirs, letters, testimonies, and metafiction, and in earlier definitions it included biography...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Ellen M.,
Buss, Helen M.,
Cohen, Elizabeth S.,
Cohen, Thomas V.,
Cole, Sally,
Cooke, Nathalie,
Hinz, Evelyn J.,
Kadar, Marlene,
Neuman, Shirley,
Ty, Eleanor,
Van Wart, Alice,
Verduyn, Christl,
Williamson, Janice,
HerausgeberIn:
Kadar, Marlene,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Theory / Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (234 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice
  • PART ONE. Literary Women Who Write the Self
  • Introduction to Part One
  • 1. 'Life out of Art': Elizabeth Smart's Early Journals
  • 2. Between the Lines: Marian Engel's Cahiers and Notebooks
  • 3. Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada as Epistolary Dijournal
  • 4. Writing as a Daughter: Autobiography in Wollstonecraft's Travelogue
  • PART TWO. Recording a Life and the Construction of Self
  • Introduction to Part Two
  • 5. Court Testimony from the Past: Self and Culture in the Making of Text
  • 6. Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon
  • 7. Anthropological Lives: The Reflexive Tradition in a Social Science
  • PART THREE. Fiction and Autofiction as Life Writing
  • Introduction to Part Three
  • 8. 'I Peel Myself out of My Own Skin': Reading Don't; A Woman's Word
  • 9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative
  • 10. Reading Reflections: The Autobiographical Illusion in Cat's Eye
  • 11. Dreaming a True Story: The Disenchantment of the Hero in Don Quixote, Part 2
  • PART FOUR. Poetics and Life Writing
  • Introduction to Part Four
  • 12. Mimesis: The Dramatic Lineage of Auto/Biography
  • 13. Autobiography: From Different Poetics to a Poetics of Differences
  • Biographical Notes

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