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This woman in particular : contexts for the biographical image of Emily Carr /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Stephanie Kirkwood (Autor)
Otros Autores: James, William Closson (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [1996]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Preliminary Thoughts on Biography and Meaning
  • CHAPTER 1: The Edge of Nowhere: Emily Carr and the Limits of Autobiography
  • Emily and God: Creating the Modern Self
  • In the Arena of Self-Writing
  • Autobiography: An Arena for the Creation of Meaning
  • CHAPTER 2: The Enigma of Biography
  • Biography and the Covenant between Word and Object
  • CHAPTER 3: A Mirror to Culture: Moments in the Development of the Genre
  • Enlightenment Lives
  • Plus Ãa change, plus câ€?est la mîme choseIn or About 1910 ...
  • The Image of Emily Carr: Early Shapes
  • Mid-Century Spiritual Quests: Canadian Versions
  • The 1960s: Consolidation
  • CHAPTER 4: Life and Text: There Once Was an Artist Named Emily Carr
  • Feminist Inversions in the Biographical Sphere
  • Portraits of the Artist as a Female in the (Post)Modern World
  • Reconstruction and Interpretation
  • Versions
  • CHAPTER 5: Deep Nature: Survival in a Constructed World
  • Constructing Lives and Constructed Absence
  • Sites of Meaning
  • Signs of Life
  • Lives of a MysticCultural Determinants/Spiritual Imperatives
  • Definitional Elasticity and the Necessity of Improvisation
  • The (Im)possibility of Knowing More
  • Deep Nature: Religious and Psychological Dimensions
  • Deep Nature: Dimensions of the Primitive
  • After Life
  • APPENDIX A: A Brief Chronology of Emily Carr's Life and Writing
  • APPENDIX B: Three Responses to Carrâ€?s Biographical Image
  • Notes
  • References and Sources Consulted
  • Index
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