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American Autobiography
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Author : Paul John Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1991
American Autobiography written by Paul John Eakin and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.
The American Autobiography
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Author : Albert E. Stone
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1981
The American Autobiography written by Albert E. Stone and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with American literature categories.
Nine essays, all produced within the last six years, include Robert F. Sayre on autobiographies in American studies programs, Anais Nin on the diary, Alfred Kazin and Patricia Meyer Spacks on the self, Darrell Mansell on "fact," Janet Varner Gunn on the temporal mode in Walden, Thomas B. Doherty on ideology, Alvin H. Rosenfeld on ethnic self-consciousness, and Rosenfeld's essay, "Inventing the Jew: Notes on Jewish Autobiography."
American Autobiography
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Author : Rachael McLennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
American Autobiography written by Rachael McLennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with American literature categories.
A History Of African American Autobiography
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Author : Joycelyn Moody
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-22
A History Of African American Autobiography written by Joycelyn Moody and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.
Telling Lies In Modern American Autobiography
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Author : Timothy Dow Adams
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Telling Lies In Modern American Autobiography written by Timothy Dow Adams and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly complex because of apparent lies that permeate them. In examining their stories, Adams shows that lying in autobiography, especially literary autobiography, is not simply inevitable. Rather it is often a deliberate, highly strategic decision on the author's part. Throughout his analysis, Adams's standard is not literal accuracy but personal authenticity. He attempts to resolve some of the paradoxes of recent autobiographical theory by looking at the classic question of design and truth in autobiography from the underside -- with a focus on lying rather than truth. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Fabricating Lives
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Author : Herbert Leibowitz
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Fabricating Lives written by Herbert Leibowitz and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
How does the autobiographer want us to perceive him? How do we penetrate the memoirist’s strategies and subterfuges—sometimes conscious, usually—brilliant—and discover the real person screened behind them? In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz explores the self-portraits of eight Americans whose lives span almost two centuries and encompass a stunning range of personality and circumstances: Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg. In pursuit of clues to both the human essence and the literary artifice of each, he examines their styles (Franklin’s plain talk and “possum’s wit,” Sullivan’s “gilded abstractions,” Stein’s “gossipy ventriloquism,” Williams’s “grumpy clowning” and foxy innocence), their metaphors, and their choices of incident, looking beyond their visions of themselves to their true identities. In American autobiography particularly Leibowitz finds an extraordinary medley of voices—from the balanced objectivity of Addams and the heated oratory of Goldman, as each encounters the promises and failures of the democratic ideal, to the uneasy self-consciousness of Wright, reflecting the tensions of growing up in a world he did not trust, and the baroque contrivances of Dahlberg, who painted himself in mythic proportions on the American canvas. As he guides us through the labyrinths and mazes of these self-histories, Leibowitz relates the material to a wide cross section of the American experience and helps to interpret our history. His engrossing and highly original book is both a contribution to biographical criticism and a vivid recapturing of some remarkable American lives.
American Autobiography After 9 11
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Author : Megan Brown
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2017-01-10
American Autobiography After 9 11 written by Megan Brown and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the post-9/11 era, a flood of memoirs has wrestled with anxieties both personal and national.
American Autobiography
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Author : G. Thomas Couser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Edie
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Author : Jean Stein
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2015-10-13
Edie written by Jean Stein and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
The “exceptionally seductive biography” of the 1960s icon as told by those who knew her (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In the 1960s, actress and model Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose. In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the ‘60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music—the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shatters many myths about the ‘60s experience in America. “This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.” —Norman Mailer
Race And Form
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Author : Dejin Xu
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Race And Form written by Dejin Xu and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This study presents a contextualized narratology of African American autobiography. The author compares eight autobiographies by seven African American writers from different periods (namely, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks) and focuses on both the issue of race and such formal elements as temporal arrangement, narrative situation, narrative perspective, present tense, commentary, unreliability as well as audience. In addition to proposing a major framework for the narratology of autobiography in the opening chapter, the succeeding practical analyses draw on other approaches, such as stylistics and rhetoric, which complement narratology in the investigation of «how» a story is presented.