Telling women's lives : the new biography /

Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagner-Martin, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Englisch, ...
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Biography as a literary form.
Women > Biography > Methodology.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Femmes > Biographies > Méthodologie.
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
17.86 literary genres, theory of genre.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Biography as a literary form
Women
Biografie
Frau
Biografieën.
Vrouwen.
Biographie (genre littéraire)
Femmes écrivains anglaises > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Femmes écrivains américaines > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Geschichte 1880-1994.
USA
Englisch.
Geschichte > 1900-1993
Women > Biography > Methodology
Biography
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biography: the old and the new
  • Telling women's lives
  • The trap of the stereotype
  • Relinquishing stereotypes
  • The biographer's problem: women as wives
  • A woman's self: wives and writers
  • The power of naming
  • Listening to women's stories
  • Writing about mothers
  • Taking control of story: women's voices
  • Families of women
  • The best of them
  • Popular biography
  • Revisionist biographies of women.

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