Author: Gordon O. TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Studies in Modern American Autobiography
Author: Gordon O. TaylorChapters of Experience
Author: Gordon O. TaylorPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312129781
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography
Author: Timothy Dow AdamsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469639408
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic. Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are particularly complex because of apparent lies that permeate them. In examining their stories, Adams shows that lying in autobiography, especially literary autobiography, is not simply inevitable. Rather it is often a deliberate, highly strategic decision on the author's part. Throughout his analysis, Adams's standard is not literal accuracy but personal authenticity. He attempts to resolve some of the paradoxes of recent autobiographical theory by looking at the classic question of design and truth in autobiography from the underside -- with a focus on lying rather than truth. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Studies in Modern American Autobiography
Author: Gordon O. TaylorPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349090468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Chapters of Experience
Author: Gordon O. TaylorPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312129774
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
American Autobiography
Author: Rachael McLennanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748644628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The first student guide to American autobiographys introduction to the major forms of autobiographical writing in America and important current developments in autobiography studies discusses both 'canonised' texts and those from contemporary writers. Taking a broadly chronological approach, the history of American autobiography is explored including the social and cultural factors that might account for the importance of autobiography in American culture. Then post-1970 autobiographies are examined, taking into account the development in poststructuralism from this time that affected notions of the subject who could write, and conceptions of truth, identity and reference.
American Autobiography After 9/11
Author: Megan BrownPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299310302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
In the post-9/11 era, a flood of memoirs has wrestled with anxieties both personal and national.
American Autobiography
Author: Paul John EakinPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299127848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.
Light Writing & Life Writing
Author: Timothy Dow AdamsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807847923
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimensional
Picturing Identity
Author: Hertha D. Sweet WongPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.