Reading Autobiography : A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition /

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson lay out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the components of autobiographical acts, including memory, experienc...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Smith, Sidonie
Autres auteurs: Watson, Julia, 1945-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Édition:Second edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Autobiography.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
autobiography (genre)
Autobiographie.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Life narrative : definitions and distinctions
  • Autobiographical subjects
  • Autobiographical acts
  • Life narrative in historical perspective
  • In the wake of the memoir boom
  • The visual-verbal-virtual contexts of life narrative
  • A history of autobiography criticism, part I : theorizing autobiography
  • A history of autobiography criticism, part II : expanding autobiography studies
  • A tool kit : twenty-four strategies for reading life narratives
  • Appendix A. Sixty genres of life narrative
  • Appendix B. Group and classroom projects
  • Appendix C. Journals and internet resources.

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