The Ethics Of Autobiography
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download The Ethics Of Autobiography PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Ethics Of Autobiography book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Ethics Of Life Writing
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul John Eakin
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Ethics Of Life Writing written by Paul John Eakin and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays here explore such questions.
The Ethics Of Autobiography
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Angel G. Loureiro
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Ethics Of Autobiography written by Angel G. Loureiro and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Authors, Exiled categories.
After laying out these theoretical foundations, Loureiro puts them to work in analyzing four of the most fascinating autobiographies written by Spanish exiles: The Life of Joseph Blanco White, who lived from 1775 to 1841, Memoria de la Melancolia by Maria Teresa Leon (1904-1988), Coto vedado and En los reinos de taifa by Juan Goytisolo (born 1931), and Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun (born 1923). The lives of these authors, all of whom were exiled for political reasons, were disrupted by some of the most crucial events in Spain's tortuous road to modernity and democracy. The book closes with a discussion of why there have been so few critical examinations of autobiographies written in modern Spain. Loureiro proposes that, even in today's Spain, stifling social and political forces smother ethical responsibility, which is an essential ingredient in creating autobiographies that dare to be more than a humdrum inventory of personal recollections.
The Ethics Of Working Class Autobiography
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Elizabeth Bidinger
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-07-19
The Ethics Of Working Class Autobiography written by Elizabeth Bidinger and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ethical dimension of autobiography is emerging as an important area of study. Scholars now recognize that an autobiography must be read with an element of caution since it represents not so much the literal truth as the author's perception of people and events, a perspective sometimes unflattering to those portrayed. Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. It examines the ways in which each author confronts his or her past and how the authors represent their working-class family members. Texts discussed are Growing Up by Russell Baker (1982), Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman (1984), A Woman in Amber by Agate Nesaule (1995) and Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason (1999). Each work recounts the author's struggle with a particular societal element such as gender, race, class division or region. While Baker's memoir provides an example of positive, balanced characterizations of working-class relatives, the texts by Wideman, Nesaule and Mason illustrate the ethical pitfalls in portraying less powerful family members in one's life story. An overview of trends in working-class autobiography and a brief survey regarding the critical reception of each work are included.
Sex Lies And Autobiography
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : James L. O'Rourke
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2006
Sex Lies And Autobiography written by James L. O'Rourke and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Autobiographical fiction categories.
In Sex, Lies, and Autobiography James O'Rourke explores the relationships between literary form and ethics, revealing how autobiographical texts are able to confront readers with the moral complexities of everyday life. Tracing the ethical legacy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in a series of English-language texts, the author shows how Rousseau's doubts about the possibility of ethical behavior in everyday life shadows the first-person narratives of five canonic works: William Wordsworth's Prelude, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Villette, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Offering a fascinating new way of thinking about ethics through literature, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography challenges the most fundamental principles of the philosophical study of ethics, revealing the innate difference between morality in life and morality in literature. O'Rourke begins with Rousseau's inability to reconcile his intuitive belief that he is a good person with the effects that his actions have on others, and he goes on to show how this same ethical impasse recurs in the five aforementioned texts. The ethical crises these texts describe, such as when Jane Eyre's happiness can be purchased only at the cost of Bertha Mason's suicide, or when Humbert Humbert's artistry demands the sacrifice of Dolores Haze, are not instances of authorial ethical blindness, O'Rourke says, but rather are ethical challenges that force us as readers to consider our own lives. In each of these works, a narrator attempts to justify his or her behavior and fails; in each case, the rigorous narrative of self-examination demands a similar effort from the reader, whose own sense of moral rectitude is put into question. Confronting the long-held philosophical construction that links ethical principles and life choices, thereby reassuring us of the ethical coherence of everyday life, the narrators of these literary autobiographies come to a very different conclusion; by looking back on their lives, they cannot understand how their most benevolent desires led to such damaging life stories. By leaving meaning inexplicit, O'Rourke argues, these texts are able to recover traumatic material that is ordinarily repressed and then bring that repressed knowledge to bear on self-justifying narratives. For readers interested in autobiographical studies, ethical criticism, and trauma and literary studies, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography provides a groundbreaking analysis of the role of ethics in literature.
The Conscience Of The Autobiographer
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : J. Barbour
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1992-08-25
The Conscience Of The Autobiographer written by J. Barbour and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.
Trying To Say The Whole Thing
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Nicole H. Burgund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Trying To Say The Whole Thing written by Nicole H. Burgund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
This study assesses the implications of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy for autobiographical writing, putting him in conversation with texts (fiction and nonfiction) that actively resist the act of writing about one’s life. Chapter One traces the development of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus’ limits of rational language (and the mystical silence beyond) to the ground-level “album” of ordinary language games in Philosophical Investigations. Can Wittgenstein’s professed inability to bring order to the latter—arguably an inevitable consequence of language games’ endless proliferation—also be applied to writing about life, especially given the conspicuous autobiographical silence of Wittgenstein, whose planned autobiography never materialized? Chapter Two outlines how in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, traditional narratives of journey and procreation find their undoing through what Beckett calls “efficient misuse” of language—a strategy that mimics his own oeuvre’s autographical mode. The third chapter takes up Meša Selimović’s Death and the Dervish, where a first-person account meant to untangle devolves into an amorphous narrative in which tangles, hallucinations, and fragments all become part of the search for a “human” language. Whereas the two novels enact an inexorable unraveling, the two nonfiction works examined in the last chapter, Bernadette Mayer’s Memory and Irena Vrkljan’s Marina; or, About Biography, foreground the issue of language and memory, offering alternatives to the limitations imposed by habit and inherited hierarchical traditions. Mayer explores what Wittgenstein might call memory experiences, exposing the many ways that memory works as a language event, while Vrkljan uses memory as a space to bring together lives in a collective “biography of words,” where Wittgenstein’s aspect-seeing serves a crucial function. Finally, this dissertation argues for an acknowledgement—much like Wittgenstein’s in the prefaces to his two major works—of certain language problems as essential aspects of the autobiographical task. At the same time, there should be a Wittgensteinian striving towards some impossible whole, complete understanding. Only then can the work function honestly and therapeutically, that is, to clarify and liberate.
Memoir Ethics
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Mike W. Martin
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-02-10
Memoir Ethics written by Mike W. Martin and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-10 with Philosophy categories.
Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs. It explores how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. Particular attention is paid to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional (nonmoral) types of values in good lives. More generally, it explores the relevance of memoir to moral philosophy and, in turn, how moral philosophy enters into elucidating and critiquing memoirs.
Vulnerable Subjects
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : G. Thomas Couser
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Vulnerable Subjects written by G. Thomas Couser and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects—persons who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship, unable to represent themselves in writing, or unable to offer meaningful consent to their representation by someone else.... Of primary importance is intimate life writing—that done within families or couples, close relationships, or quasi-professional relationships that involve trust—rather than conventional biography, which can be written by a stranger. The closer the relationship between writer and subject, the greater the vulnerability or dependency of the subject, the higher the ethical stakes, and the more urgent the need for ethical scrutiny."—from the Preface Vulnerable Subjects explores a range of life-writing scenarios-from the "celebrity" to the "ethnographic"—and a number of life-writing genres from parental memoir to literary case studies by Oliver Sacks. G. Thomas Couser addresses complex contemporary issues; he investigates the role of disability in narratives of euthanasia and explores the implications of the Human Genome Project for life-writing practices in any age when many regard DNA as a code that "scripts" lives and shapes identity. Throughout, his book is concerned with the ethical implications of the political and economic, as well as the mimetic, aspects of life writing.
Remaking Memory
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : John Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Libri Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015
Remaking Memory written by John Freeman and has been published by Libri Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Psychology categories.
When research is so connected to personal interest, experience, and familiarity that objectivity becomes a moveable feast, the line between documentation and invention blurs to near-invisibility. John Freeman asks what it means to locate oneself into research findings and narrative reports, and what happens when one's self goes further and becomes the research. Subjecting received truths to a series of hard questions, readers are taken on a journey through self-performance, traumatic memoir, the lure of weasel words, emotional evocation, the vagaries of memory, creative nonfiction, cultural appropriation, illusion masquerading as truth and the complex ethics of university research. Case studies from international autoethnographers run through the book and appendices provide invaluable advice to university researchers and supervisors.
The Ethics In Literature
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Dominic Rainsford
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
The Ethics In Literature written by Dominic Rainsford and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
The question of ethics has dominated recent developments within the humanities. This volume brings together the most recent theories of ethics and reading and applies them to a wide variety of literary texts. Ethical and literary issues explored by the contributors include biography, sensibility, national identity, feminism, postcolonialism, religion, subjectivity and stylistics. Literary authors and philosophers/theorists discussed range from Shakespeare and Mary Shelley to Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie, and from Kant and Coleridge to Derrida and Levinas.