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Threads Of Life
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Author : Richard Freadman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-02
Threads Of Life written by Richard Freadman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02 with Education categories.
Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers—questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular choices and actions, through the activity of my own will? Indeed, the issue of the will is central to autobiographical writing, and some of the greatest autobiographies give extended consideration to the will—its nature; its powers; its limitations; the forms of freedom, constraint, and expression it finds in various cultures; its role in particular human lives. In this new study, unprecedented in subject and scope, Richard Freadman offers the first sustained account of how changing theological, philosophical, and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped shape various understandings of the will. Early chapters trace narrative representations of the will from antiquity (the Greeks and Augustine) to postmodernism (Derrida and Barthes), with particular emphasis on late modernity's culture of the will. Later chapters then present detailed and powerfully original readings of autobiographical texts by Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, B. F. Skinner, Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, and Diana Trilling. Freadman's interdisciplinary approach to autobiography and the will includes a theoretical defense of the view that autobiographers are, in varying degrees, agents in their own texts. Threads of Life argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now deeply embedded in contemporary cultural discourse, need reexamining. In this, he contends, 'reflective autobiography' has an important part to play.
Fictions In Autobiography
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Author : Paul John Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Fictions In Autobiography written by Paul John Eakin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living and only eventually, and occasionally, in writing. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Auto Bio Nobody
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Author : Rasheed Soofi
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Auto Bio Nobody written by Rasheed Soofi and has been published by Xlibris Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with categories.
You hold in your hand the pen that draws the course of your life. Rasheed Soofi does an outstanding job of incorporating world journeys into experiences and interactions with other cultures. From the evolution of professional and social life from these roots to experiences in America and other countries, readers receive a close inspection of different encounters and life-changing experiences that charts both physical and mental roadblocks in life and the process of overcoming them. - By Midwest Book Review In this intriguing autobiography, the author begins with his birth and early family life in Iran, sharing fascinating details of his experiences along the way as he eventually makes a new life for himself in the United States. He earns his degree and then practices medicine. We meet and learn of the idiosyncrasies of his mother, father, siblings, friends, school, and work colleagues through stories of his travels and studies. Vibrantly full of color also are the tales of his relationships with various women, from one-time affairs to the three women with whom he has been married. - By US Book Review
The Autobiography Of Mark Rutherford
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Author : William Hale White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
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Autobiography Of Mark Twain Volume 1
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Author : Mark Twain
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Autobiography Of Mark Twain Volume 1 written by Mark Twain and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"—meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick
Early Modern Autobiography
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Author : Ronald Bedford
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2006
Early Modern Autobiography written by Ronald Bedford and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Autobiography categories.
Why, and in what ways, did late medieval and early modern English people write about themselves, and what was their understanding of how "selves" were made and discussed? This collection goes to the heart of current debate about literature and autobiography, addressing the contentious issues of what is meant by early modern autobiographical writing, how it was done, and what was understood by self-representation in a society whose groupings were both elaborate and highly regulated. Early Modern Autobiography considers the many ways in which autobiographical selves emerged from the late medieval period through the seventeenth century, with the aim of understanding the interaction between those individuals' lives and their worlds, the ways in which they could be recorded, and the contexts in which they are read. In addressing this historical arc, the volume develops new readings of significant autobiographical works, while also suggesting the importance of texts and contexts that have rarely been analyzed in detail, enabling the contributors to reflect on, and challenge, some prevailing ideas about what it means to write autobiographically and about the development of notions of self-representation. "The idea of the self, as seen from diverse and fascinating perspectives on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century life: this is what readers can expect from Early Modern Autobiography. A beautifully edited collection, genuinely far-reaching and insightful, Early Modern Autobiography makes known to us a great deal about how people saw themselves four hundred years ago." --Derek Cohen, Professor of English, McLaughlin College, York University "Acutely addressing a range of central issues from subjectivity to theatricality to religion, these essays will be of great interest to specialists in early modern studies and students of autobiographical writings from all eras." --Heather Dubrow, Tighe-Evans Professor and John Bascom Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin "The essays in this volume show where archival discoveries--memoirs, letters, account books, wills, and marginalia--can take us in understanding early modern mentalities. They document the interdependence of the abstract and the everyday, the social constructedness of self-awareness, local contexts for self-recordation, and impulses that range from legal purpose to imaginative escape. The sixteen chapters open many fascinating new perspectives on identity and personhood in Renaissance England."--Lena Cowen Orlin, Executive Director, The Shakespeare Association of America and Professor of English, University of Maryland Baltimore County Ronald Bedford is Reader in the School of English, Communication and Theatre at the Unversity of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, and author of The Defence of Truth: Herbert of Cherbury and the Seventeenth Century and Dialogues with Convention: Readings in Renaissance Poetry. The late Lloyd Davis was Reader in the School of English at the University of Queensland, and author of Guise and Disguise: Rhetoric and Characterization in the English Renaissance (1993) and editor of Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance (1998) and Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance (2003). Philippa Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, and has published widely in the areas of Shakespeare studies, cultural studies, feminism, and postcolonial studies.
The Culture Of Autobiography
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Author : Robert Folkenflik
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1993
The Culture Of Autobiography written by Robert Folkenflik and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing primarily on the period from the eighteenth-century to the present, this interdisciplinary volume takes a fresh look at the institutions and practices of autobiography and self-portraiture in Europe, the United States and other cultures.
Autobiography And Personal Recollections Of John Lemley Editor Of The Zion S Watchman
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Author : John Lemley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Autobiography And Personal Recollections Of John Lemley Editor Of The Zion S Watchman written by John Lemley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Methodists categories.
Design And Truth In Autobiography
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Author : Roy Pascal
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Design And Truth In Autobiography written by Roy Pascal and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves examination for its own sake. This book outlines a definition of the form and traces its historical origins and development, analyses its ‘truth’ and talks about what sort of self-knowledge it investigates.
Autobiography Of A K Edited By W Stickney
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Author : Amos KENDALL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Autobiography Of A K Edited By W Stickney written by Amos KENDALL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.