Justifiable Conduct : Self-Vindication in Memoir /

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How do memoirists make their work interesting, daring, exciting, and unorthodox enough so that they attract an audience, yet not so heinous and scandalous that their readers are unable to empathize or identify with them? This book explores the different strategies memoirists use to "neutralize&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goode, Erich (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology > Biographical methods.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Deviant behavior.
Conduct of life.
Autobiography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
autobiography (genre)
Sociologie > Histoires de vie.
Autobiographie.
Deviance dans la litterature > Histoire.
Morale pratique > Histoire.
Deviant behavior in literature > History.
Conduct of life > History.
Deviant behavior > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Autobiography and Memoir
  • Autonarrating Transgression
  • Criminal Behavior
  • Substance Abuse
  • Sexual Transgressions
  • Political Deviance
  • Accounting for Deviance.

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