TY  - GEN
T1  - Essays on life writing : from genre to critical practice
T2  - Theory/culture series ;
A2  - Kadar, Marlene, 1950-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto, Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn244764813
AB  - 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. It is a way of seeing literary and other texts that neither objectifies nor subjectifies the nature of a particular cultural truth. Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars, most of whom are women engaged in larger projects in life writing or in archival research. In the more practical pieces the author has discerned a pattern in autobiographical text, or subtext, that has come to revolutionize the life, the critic's approach, or the discipline itself. In the theoretical pieces, authors make cogent proposals to view a body of literature in a new way, often in order to incorporate feminist visions or humanistic interpretations. The contributors represent a broad range of scholars from disciplines within the humanities and beyond. Collectively they provide an impressive overview of a growing field of scholarship.
OP  - 234
CN  - PN471 .E77 1992eb
SN  - 9781442674615
SN  - 144267461X
SN  - 1282056387
SN  - 9781282056381
SN  - 0802027415
SN  - 0802067832
SN  - 9780802067838
SN  - 9780802027412
KW  - Autobiography : Women authors.
KW  - Autobiographical fiction : History and criticism.
KW  - Women : Biography : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature, Modern : History and criticism.
KW  - Self in literature.
KW  - Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
KW  - Roman autobiographique : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Femmes : Biographies : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Autobiography : Women authors
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Self in literature
KW  - Women : Biography
KW  - Autobiografieën.
KW  - English prose : Special subjects : Biography
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -