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Essays on Life Writing : From Genre to Critical Practice.
Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1992.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Theory/culture series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Coming to Terms: Life Writing
- from Genre to Critical Practice
- PART ONE: Literary Women Who Write the Self: Autobiographical Documents by Literary Women as Primary Texts
- 1 'Life out of Art': Elizabeth Smart's Early Journals
- 2 Between the Lines: Marian Engel's Cahiers and Notebooks
- 3 Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada as Epistolary Dijournal
- 4 Writing as a Daughter: Autobiography in Wollstonecraft's Travelogue
- PART TWO: Recording a Life and the Construction of Self: Non-Literary Life Narratives as Life Writing
- Personal Oral Narratives, Life Histories, and Testimonials
- 5 Court Testimony from the Past: Self and Culture in the Making of Text
- 6 Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon
- 7 Anthropological Lives: The Reflexive Tradition in a Social Science
- PART THREE: Fiction and Autofiction as Life Writing: Reading as Emancipating the Subject
- 8 'I Peel Myself out of My Own Skin': Reading Don't: A Woman's Word
- 9 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative
- 10 Reading Reflections: The Autobiographical Illusion in Cat's Eye
- 11 Dreaming a True Story: The Disenchantment of the Hero in Don Quixote, Part 2
- PART FOUR: Poetics and Life Writing
- 12 Mimesis: The Dramatic Lineage of Auto/Biography
- 13 Autobiography: From Different Poetics to a Poetics of Differences
- Biographical Notes.