Essays on life writing : from genre to critical practice /

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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Tác giả khác: Kadar, Marlene, 1950-
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Được phát hành: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1992.
Loạt:Theory/culture series ; 11.
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Mục lục:
  • Coming to terms : Life writing, from genre to critical practice / Marlene Kadar
  • "Life out of art' : Elizabeth Smart's early journals / Alice Van Wart
  • Between the lines : Marian Engel's Cahiers and notebooks / Christl Verduyn
  • Anna Jameson's Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada as epistolary dijournal / Helen M. Buss
  • Writing as a daughter : autobiography in Wollstonecraft's travelogue / Eleanor Ty
  • Court testimony from the past : self and culture in the making of text / Elizabeth S. Cohen
  • Agostino Bonamore and the secret pigeon / Thomas V. Cohen
  • Anthropological lives : the reflexive tradition in a social science / Sally Cole
  • 'I peel myself out of my own skin' : reading Don't : a woman's word / Janice Williamson.
  • Whose life is it anyway? : out of the bathtub and into the narrative / Marlene Kadar
  • Reading reflections : the autobiographical illusion in Cat's eye / Nathalie Cooke
  • Dreaming a true story : the disenchantment of the hero in Don Quixote, part 2 / Ellen M. Anderson
  • Mimesis : the dramatic lineage of auto-biography / Evelyn J. Hinz
  • Autobiography : from different poetics to a poetics of differences / Shirley Neuman.