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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
ISBN 10 : 9780520946996
Pages : 760 pages
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Download Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 PDF Full or another Format written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"—meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind." The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography

Author : Maria DiBattista
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9781139952323
Pages : pages
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Download The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Maria DiBattista and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Sixteen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives of life writings traditionally classified under the rubric of autobiography. Chapters are arranged in chronological order and are grouped to reflect changing views of the psychological status, representative character, and moral authority of the autobiographical text. The volume closes with a group portrait of late-modernist and contemporary autobiographies that, by blurring the dividing line between fiction and non-fiction, expand our understanding of the genre. Accessibly written and comprehensive in scope, the volume will appeal especially to students and teachers of non-fiction narrative, creative writing, and literature more broadly.

Design and Truth in Autobiography

Author : Roy Pascal
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-20
ISBN 10 : 9781317379676
Pages : 214 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (317 users)

Download Design and Truth in Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Roy Pascal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves examination for its own sake. This book outlines a definition of the form and traces its historical origins and development, analyses its ‘truth’ and talks about what sort of self-knowledge it investigates.

The Phenomenology of Autobiography

Author : Arnaud Schmitt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-05-08
ISBN 10 : 9781351701020
Pages : 186 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (351 users)

Download The Phenomenology of Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Arnaud Schmitt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and the initial purpose of autobiography as a means for the author to communicate with a reader and narrate an experience. The study puts autobiography back into a communicational context, and putting forth the notion that one of the reasons why life writing can so often be aesthetically unsatisfactory, or difficult to distinguish from novels, is because it should not be considered as a literary genre, but as a modality with radically different rules and means of evaluation. In other words, not only is autobiography radically different from fiction due to its referentiality, but, first and foremost, it should be read differently.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Google Auto-narrated Demo
Release Date : 2019-12-31
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 46 pages
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Download The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin PDF Full or another Format written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Google Auto-narrated Demo. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. This title is based on the Harvard Classics edition.

A Burlesque Autobiography

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1977
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 24 pages
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Download A Burlesque Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Mark Twain and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1977 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and herewith tender my history: Ours is a noble old house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity. The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins. This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever since borne the maternal name (except when one of them now and then took a playful refuge in an alias to avert foolishness), instead of Higgins, is a mystery which none of us has ever felt much desire to stir. It is a kind of vague, pretty romance, and we leave it alone. All the old families do that way. Arthour Twain was a man of considerable note—a solicitor on the highway in William Rufus' time. At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places of resort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again. While there he died suddenly. Augustus Twain, seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. He was as full of fun as he could be, and used to take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night, and stick it through people as they went by, to see them jump. He was a born humorist. But he got to going too far with it; and the first time he was found stripping one of these parties, the authorities removed one end of him, and put it up on a nice high place on Temple Bar, where it could contemplate the people and have a good time. He never liked any situation so much or stuck to it so long.

Memory and Autobiography

Author : Leonor Arfuch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-08-04
ISBN 10 : 9781509542192
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (59 users)

Download Memory and Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Leonor Arfuch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she calls the ‘biographical space’ – can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalizing dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The ‘I’ who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself. Opening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch’s own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina’s last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.

Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography

Author : Joanna Summers
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2004-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9780199271290
Pages : 229 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (199 users)

Download Late-Medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Joanna Summers and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of autobiographical identity in a group of late medieval 'prison texts'. Despite the seminal nature of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy during the Middle Ages, the legacy of the figure of the writer in prison has not been examined before. The book discusses the interrelation of subjectivity, historicity, autobiography, and imprisonment, and should appeal to scholars in the burgeoning field of fifteenth century studies.

Science as Autobiography

Author : Thomas Soderqvist
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
ISBN 10 : 9780300128710
Pages : 400 pages
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Download Science as Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Thomas Soderqvist and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography probes the unusual mind, the dramatic life, and the outstanding scientific work of Danish-born immunologist Niels Jerne (1911–1994). Jerne’s Nobel Prize-winning achievements in the field of immunology place him in the pantheon of great twentieth-century biomedical theorists, yet his life is perhaps even more interesting than his science. Science as Autobiography tells Jerne’s story, weaving together a narrative of his life experiences, emotional life, and extraordinarily creative scientific work. A legendary figure who preferred an afternoon of conversation in a Paris wine bar to work in the laboratory, Jerne was renowned for his unparalleled powers of concentration and analytical keenness as well as his dissonant personal life. The book explores Jerne the man and scientist, making the fascinating argument that his life experience and view of himself became a metaphorical resource for the construction of his theories. The book also probes the moral issues that surrounded Jerne’s choice to sacrifice his family in favor of scientific goals and the pursuit of excellence.

A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography

Author : Edward Shils
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
ISBN 10 : 9781351535601
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (351 users)

Download A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Edward Shils and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal "Minerva", being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of the editorial board of "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists", and being a member of the International Council on the Future of the University. Shils recognizes that a unity of concern runs through his many theoretical writings and activities. Early in his life, the concern was expressed as understanding the character of consensus. During the last fifteen years of his life, he refined his understanding of consensus through investigation of the nature of "collective self-consciousness." That concern was the structure and character of the moral order of a society, and, in particular, liberal, democratic society. Accompanying the autobiography are two unpublished essays, "Society, Collective Self-Consciousness and Collective Self-Consciousnesses" and "Collective Self-Consciousness and Rational Choice," two areas of intellectual concern discussed in the autobiography. The book contains fascinating discussion of many of the people Shils knew throughout his illustrious career: Robert Park, Louis Wirth, Talcott Parsons, Karl Mannheim, Michael Polanyi, Audrey Richards, Karl Popper, Robert Merton, and many others. They represent Shils' final formulations on the character of society and its moral order. As such, it is a most important contribution both to the history of the social sciences in the twentieth century and to sociological theory.

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Literary Remains of Henry Fynes Clinton ... Consisting of an autobiography and literary journal and brief essays on theological subjects. Edited by C. J. Fynes Clinton

Author : Henry Fynes CLINTON
Publisher :
Release Date : 1854
ISBN 10 : BL:A0018636117
Pages : 387 pages
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Autobiography

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 1995-04-06
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015057570791
Pages : 343 pages
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Download Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Karan Singh and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Karan Singh was born in 1931 as heir to the then princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and was catapulted into political life at the early age of eighteen. In 1949 he was appointed Regent by his father Maharaja Hari Singh at the intervention of Jawaharlal Nehru, and thereafter he was continuously Head of Jammu and Kashmir for a further eighteen years - as Regent up to 1952, as elected Sadar-i-Riyasat from 1952 to 1965, and as Governor from 1965 to 1967. In 1967 Dr Karan Singh was inducted into the Union Cabinet and, at thirty-six, was the youngest person ever to become a Central Cabinet Minister in India. On this appointment, he resigned his Governorship and was elected to Parliament. He was a member of Parliament for the next eighteen years and held several major Cabinet posts.