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Author : Eleonora Chiavetta
Publisher : XL Edizioni
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105121446921
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.D/5 ( users)
Download The Language of Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Eleonora Chiavetta and published by XL Edizioni. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Ciribuco
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 2019-08-01
ISBN 10 : 9781438475264
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (438 users)
Download The Autobiography of a Language PDF Full or another Format written by Andrea Ciribuco and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition. The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (1897–1942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it’s a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali’s works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali’s works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration. Andrea Ciribuco is postdoctoral research fellow in the discipline of Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Author : Margo Culley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1992
ISBN 10 : 0299132943
Pages : 329 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (132 users)
Download American Women's Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Margo Culley and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on the works of Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.
Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-01-29
ISBN 10 : 9783110381481
Pages : 2220 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (11 users)
Download Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction PDF Full or another Format written by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 2220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.
Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
ISBN 10 : 9781400854790
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (4 users)
Download Fictions in Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Paul John Eakin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content in a process of self-creation. Further, Paul John Eakin contends, the self at the center of all autobiography is necessarily fictive. Professor Eakin shows that the autobiographical impulse is simply a special form of reflexive consciousness: from a developmental viewpoint, the autobiographical act is a mode of self-invention always practiced first in living and only eventually, and occasionally, in writing. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Maria DiBattista
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9781139952323
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (139 users)
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.
Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : 0299127842
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (127 users)
Download American Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Paul John Eakin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Oliver S. Buckton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 080784702X
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (847 users)
Download Secret Selves PDF Full or another Format written by Oliver S. Buckton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by such influential 19th-century writers as Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, and, in an epilogue, E.M. Forster, and reveals the "confessional" elements of their writings.
Author : Ann Jefferson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-01-04
ISBN 10 : 9780191533778
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (191 users)
Download Biography and the Question of Literature in France PDF Full or another Format written by Ann Jefferson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at the relations between literature and biography by tracing the history of their connections through three hundred years of French literature. The starting point for this history is the eighteenth century when the term 'biography' first entered the French language and when the word 'literature' began to acquire its modern sense of writing marked by an aesthetic character. Arguing that the idea of literature is inherently open to revision and contestation, Ann Jefferson examines the way in which biographically-orientated texts have been engaged in questioning and revising definitions of literature. At the same time, she tracks the evolving forms of biographical writing in French culture, and proposes a reappraisal of biography in terms not only of its forms, but also of its functions. Although Ann Jefferson's book has powerful theoretical implications for both biography and the literary, it is first and foremost a history, offering a comprehensive new account of the development of French literature through this dual focus on the question of literature and on the relations between literature and biography. It offers original readings of major authors and texts in the light of these concerns, beginning with Rousseau and ending with 'life-writing' contemporary authors such as Pierre Michon and Jacques Roubaud. Other authors discussed include Mme de Stäel, Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuve, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, Nerval, Mallarmé, Schwob, Proust, Gide, Leiris, Sartre, Genet, Barthes, and Roger Laporte.
Author : Lauren Rusk
Publisher : Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 10 : 9780815336556
Pages : 197 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (815 users)
Download The Life Writing of Otherness PDF Full or another Format written by Lauren Rusk and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.
Author : Martin A. Danahay
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-08-24
ISBN 10 : 0791415120
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (415 users)
Download A Community of One PDF Full or another Format written by Martin A. Danahay and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-08-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that the category autobiography was a product of nineteenth-century individualism, the author analyzes the dependence of the nineteenth-century masculine subject on autonomy or self-naming as the prerequisite for the composition of a life history. The masculine autobiographer achieves this autonomy by using a feminized other as a metaphorical mirror for the self. The feminized other in these texts represents the social cost of masculine autobiography. Authors from Wordsworth to Arnold, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Stuart Mill, and Edmund Gosse, use female lovers and family members as symbols for the community with which they feel they have lost contact. In the theoretical introduction, the author argues that these texts actually privilege the autonomous self over the images of community they ostensibly value, creating in the process a self-enclosed and self-referential community of one.
Author : Lewis R. Rambo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-06
ISBN 10 : 9780199713547
Pages : 828 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (199 users)
Download The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion PDF Full or another Format written by Lewis R. Rambo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world. Scholars from a wide array of religions and disciplines interpret both the varieties of conversion experiences and the processes that inform this personal and communal phenomenon. This volume examines the experiences of individuals and communities who change religions, those who experience an intensification of their religion of origin, and those who encounter new religions through colonial intrusion, missionary work, and charismatic and revitalization movements. The thirty-two innovative essays provide overviews of the history of particular religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, indigenous religions, and new religious movements. The essays also offer a wide range of disciplinary perspectives-psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, political, feminist, and geographical-on methods and theories deployed in understanding conversion, and insight into various forms of deconversion.
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.
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
ISBN 10 : 9781136787430
Pages : 1150 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (136 users)
Download Encyclopedia of Life Writing PDF Full or another Format written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Rcp Sinha
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-02
ISBN 10 : 9781481784931
Pages : 258 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (481 users)
Download The Indian Autobiographies in English PDF Full or another Format written by Rcp Sinha and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-portrayal has become an integral part of modern culture and India equally shares this universal mood. A large number of Indians have committed themselves to the writing of their autobiographies in English as well as in the regional languages. It is exciting to know that those in English have been produced by some of the finest minds of the country, such as Raja Rammohun Roy, Lal Behari Day, Surendra Nath Banerjea, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy, S. Radhakrishnan, Sachchidanand Sinha and Nirad C. Chaudhury. It is highly fascinating to read their testimony in the shaping of modern Indian history. Even more exciting are the glimpses into their private lives and the interrelation between the portrait and the man. This study is the first comprehensive attempt to critically evaluate these works and shows how in modern times Indians begin to get over the proverbial Indian inhibition in talking of private affairs hesitatingly first and then with a devastating even embarrassing frankness. This study, in passing also tries to dispel the impression that no autobiographical tradition existed in ancient and medieval India.
Author : K. M. George
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Release Date : 1972
ISBN 10 : 8126004134
Pages : 340 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (4 users)
Download Western Influence on Malayalam Language and Literature PDF Full or another Format written by K. M. George and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1972 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ý......Dr. GeorgeýS Comprehensive Study Is Thus Valuable, Not Only For Throwing A Revealing Light On The Immediate Subject, But Also For Its Relevance To The Wider Subject Of Western Influence On India As A Whole....It Is Only After Inquiries Have Been Conducted In Depth, Like Dr. GeorgeýS Covering The Whole Country And All The Divers Aspects Of The Problem That Anything Like A Definitive Picture For All India Can Be Expected To Emerge. But Even By Itself, Dr. GeorgeýS Study Has An Importance Transcending Malayalam Language And Literature Or The Life And Culture Of The People Of Kerala.....ý
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.