International Life Writing
International Life Writing

Author: Paul Longley Arthur

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1317967151

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Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating connections between people, places and historical eras, they unfold against the backdrop of events and social movements of global significance that have influenced the world in which we live today. Many of the authors document and celebrate lives that have been lost, hidden or neglected. They are reconstituted from the archives, restored through testimony and reimagined through art. The effects of colonialism, war and conflict on individual lives can be seen throughout the book alongside themes of transnational connection, displacement and exile, migration of individuals, families and peoples, and recovery and recuperation through memory and writing, creativity and performance. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Life Writing.

Unhinging the National Framework
Unhinging the National Framework

Author: Babs Boter

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-04

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9789088909757

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An exploration of how personal life-stories, when reconstructed as 'transnational lives,' escape the confines of national histories and open up new avenues for interpreting cultural identity, social mobility, and public memory.

On Life-writing
On Life-writing

Author: Zachary Leader

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0198704062

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On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing. The collection brings together eminent scholars and writers to reflect on specific examples of life-writing to reflect broader themes within the genre.

Essays on Life Writing
Essays on Life Writing

Author: Marlene Kadar

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780802067838

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Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.

Experiments in Life-Writing
Experiments in Life-Writing

Author: Lucia Boldrini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 331955414X

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This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or drama as they tell a historical character’s story. Between them, the essays shed light on the broad range of auto/biographical experimentation in modern Europe and will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and politics of form in life-writing: in the ways in which departures from traditional generic paradigms are intricately linked with specific views of subjectivity, with questions of personal, communal, and national identity. The Introduction of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

John Milton
John Milton

Author: Paul Hammond

Publisher: British Academy

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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These essays lead the reader into the political and intellectual worlds within which John Milton wrote his verse and prose, and into the later worlds within which his reputation evolved and fluctuated. The illuminating and entertaining range of perspectives will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author: Margaretta Jolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 1141

ISBN-13: 1136787445

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing

Author: Jennifer Cooke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1108808190

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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect for traditional genre boundaries, new audacity writing takes risks with its author's and others' reputations, and even, on occasion, with the law. This book offers an examination and critical assessment of new audacity in works by Katherine Angel, Alison Bechdel, Marie Calloway, Virginie Despentes, Tracey Emin, Sheila Heti, Juliet Jacques, Chris Krauss, Jana Leo, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place, Paul Preciado, and Kate Zambreno. It analyses how they write about women's self-authorship, trans experiences, struggles with mental illness, sexual violence and rape, and the desire for sexual submission. It engages with recent feminist and gender scholarship, providing discussions of vulnerability, victimhood, authenticity, trauma, and affect.

The Ethics of Life Writing
The Ethics of Life Writing

Author: Paul John Eakin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780801488337

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Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays here explore such questions.

Light Writing & Life Writing
Light Writing & Life Writing

Author: Timothy Dow Adams

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780807847923

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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