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History, Historians, and Autobiography

Author : Jeremy D. Popkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-05-09
ISBN 10 : 9780226675435
Pages : 339 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (226 users)

Download History, Historians, and Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Jeremy D. Popkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are publishing stories of their own lives? And how is this recent development changing the nature of history-writing, the historical profession, and the genre of autobiography? Drawing on the theoretical work of contemporary critics of autobiography and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, Popkin reads the autobiographical classics of Edward Gibbon and Henry Adams and the memoirs of contemporary historians such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Peter Gay, Jill Ker Conway, and many others, he reveals the contributions historians' life stories make to our understanding of the human experience. Historians' autobiographies, he shows, reveal how scholars arrive at their vocations, the difficulties of writing about modern professional life, and the ways in which personal stories can add to our understanding of historical events such as war, political movements, and the traumas of the Holocaust. An engrossing overview of the way historians view themselves and their profession, this work will be of interest to readers concerned with the ways in which we understand the past, as well as anyone interested in the art of life-writing.

R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and Other Writings

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-10
ISBN 10 : 9780199586035
Pages : 581 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (199 users)

Download R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and Other Writings PDF Full or another Format written by Robin George Collingwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a many-faceted view of the great Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre is his Autobiography of 1939, a cult classic for its compelling 'story of his thought'. That work is accompanied here by previously unpublished writings by Collingwood and eleven specially written essays on aspects of his life and work.

The New Art of Autobiography

Author : Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1991
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015022067394
Pages : 263 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

Download The New Art of Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Donald Phillip Verene and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1991 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Vico's autobiography, this volume places the work within the development of the genre. The author argues that Vico made the telling of his own life an application of his philosophy on human history and considers it in relation to Augustine's "Confessions" and Descartes' "Discourse".

The Philosopher's Autobiography

Author : Shlomit C. Schuster
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : 0275977897
Pages : 260 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (977 users)

Download The Philosopher's Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Shlomit C. Schuster and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines philosophical autobiography as a literary genre and an alternative to Freudian psychoanalysis.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, art, and autobiography

Author : John T. Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 0415350875
Pages : 529 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (35 users)

Download Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics, art, and autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by John T. Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.

A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography

Author : Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-19
ISBN 10 : 9781317377344
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (317 users)

Download A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality–a healing act that involves the writer in a "wrestle with words and meanings" that can be deeply regenerative. Narration can be a way of purging guilt and pain, re-centering the self, and reconnecting with community after a shattering experience has driven one into silence and isolation. This book considers the problems, such as finding words for the inexplicable, the narrative perspective chosen and the traditional forms or narrative structures as means of re-patterning consciousness. It looks at seven autobiographies as crisis narratives and demonstrates how therapy and art merge in autobiography so that the literature acts back upon life. Works considered: Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth; Elie Wiesel’s Night; Christa Wolf’s Kinheitsmuster (A Model Childhood); C. S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed; Peter Handke’s Wunschloses Unglueck (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams); Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born; Robert Prisig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

China and her biographical dimensions

Author : Christina Neder
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 3447044926
Pages : 802 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (44 users)

Download China and her biographical dimensions PDF Full or another Format written by Christina Neder and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch ist dem Andenken des 1999 verstorbenen renommierten Bochumer Sinologen Helmut Martin gewidmet. Namhafte Chinawissenschaftler aus der ganzen Welt spannen in ihren Beitragen einen Bogen, der das umfangreiche ?uvre der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit Helmut Martins widerspiegelt. Nach einer personlich gehaltenen Einfuhrung zu Leben und Werk Helmut Martins konzentriert sich der Themenschwerpunkt des Bandes auf (auto-)biographische Fragestellungen in Literatur, Wissenschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft des traditionellen und des modernen Chinas. Die chinesische und taiwanesische Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts sind hierbei besonders ins Blickfeld geruckt. Aber auch zu linguistischen Fragestellungen und den Themen Ubersetzung, Chinarezeption und -perzeption sind eine Reihe wichtiger Aufsatze enthalten. Im Anhang des Buches findet sich ein Gesamtverzeichnis der Schriften von und uber Helmut Martin.

Reading Autobiography

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : 9780816669851
Pages : 394 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (816 users)

Download Reading Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Sidonie Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: projects, and an extensive bibliography. --Book Jacket.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-01-29
ISBN 10 : 9783110279818
Pages : 2220 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (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.

Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives

Author : Carola Conle
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 1594544727
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (544 users)

Download Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives PDF Full or another Format written by Carola Conle and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we demonstrate a mode of teacher education that is practical in a non-technical sense and relies on Dewey's notion of curriculum as the reconstruction of experience. We present a curriculum that emerged through collaborative self-reflection and seeks to reconstruct personal histories of schooling. As four former preservice teachers and their instructor, we engaged in jointly constructed autobiographical inquiry in order to generate data on our own past and on our current histories of teaching and learning. We wanted to illuminate parts of our lives in schools that until now belonged to our 'normal' and taken-for-granted past. We did this in order to enjoy certain degrees of awareness and choice as to which of our living stories to reinforce and which to "let run out" in our classrooms today.

Autobiography as Philosophy

Author : Thomas Mathien
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2006-10-03
ISBN 10 : 9781134338702
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (134 users)

Download Autobiography as Philosophy PDF Full or another Format written by Thomas Mathien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives. Filling a gap in the market for a text focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several such autobiographies in the light of their authors' broader work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life accounts are particularly appropriate. Instead of the common impersonal and argumentative forms of ordinary philosophical discussion, these autobiographical texts are deeply personal and largely narrative or explanatory. The contributors to this book examine the philosophical significance of philosophers’ autobiographies and whether or not there are broadly philosophical tasks for which this sort of writing is particularly suited. Autobiography as Philosophy contains a general discussion about the relation between philosophical and autobiographical writing, and essays on the specific writings of Augustine, Abelard, Montaigne, Descartes, Vico, Hume, Rousseau, Newman, Mill, Nietzsche, Collingwood and Russell by specialists on the works of these individuals. Original and distinctive in its efforts to think about the writings of historically recognized philosophers as communicative acts governed by their own distinctive interests and purposes, the book reveals that it is as much about the texts and the authors as it is about their doctrines and arguments. As a result the book steps back from many of the issues of substantive philosophical discussion to reflect on certain forms of writing as means to philosophical ends, to consider what those ends have included.

Poetry and Autobiography

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
ISBN 10 : 9781317981923
Pages : 162 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (317 users)

Download Poetry and Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Jo Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems by Martha Moulsworth, Mina Loy, Anne Sexton, Joe Brainard, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, and Gwyneth Lewis, the authors here examine the extent to which discourses of truth and authenticity have been implicated in traditional interpretations of lyric poetry. In doing so, they endeavour to illuminate the complex intersections – and divergences – of poetry and autobiography, asking what these forms might learn from each other about issues of shared concern, from questions of identity and textuality to those of reference and audience. The creative reflections which form the second part of the collection develop and respond to these questions in various suggestive and original ways; here poetry and prose are used in order to test the relationship between poetry and life writing and to explore issues of memory, time, place, subjectivity and voice. This book was published as a special issue of Life Writing.

Rhetorical Investigations

Author : Leslie Gardner
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-12
ISBN 10 : 9781135909215
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (135 users)

Download Rhetorical Investigations PDF Full or another Format written by Leslie Gardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical analysis of texts exposes plausible ‘truths’ and presumptions implied by the writer’s presentation. In this volume, Leslie Gardner analyses the master psychologist Jung, who claimed to be expert at uncovering personal, psychological truths. In his theoretical writings, his rhetoric reveals philosophical ramifications which bear strong similarities to those of the rhetorician of the 18th century, Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. This book is driven by an interest in arguing that it is possible to read Jung’s works easily enough when you have a set of precepts to go by. The paradox of scientific discovery being set out in Jung’s grotesque and arcane imagery begins to seem a startling and legitimate psychology for the 21st century. It is time Jungian studies took on this most appropriate examination of analytical psychology. Bringing Vico to bear directly on Jung’s thought has only been cursorily attempted before although much alluded to. We find indeed that some of Jung’s ideas derive directly from rhetorical theory, and this volume proposes to highlight Jung’s innovations, and bring him into forefront of contemporary psychological thought. Rhetorical Investigations will be of interest to analysts and academics, and also to those studying philosophy and psychology.

The Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun, Esq

Author : Edmund Bohun
Publisher :
Release Date : 1853
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433000048532
Pages : 148 pages
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Encyclopedia of Life Writing

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.

Mediating American Autobiography

Author : Sean Ross Meehan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780826266408
Pages : 250 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (826 users)

Download Mediating American Autobiography PDF Full or another Format written by Sean Ross Meehan and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to explore how the emergence of photography in the mid-nineteenth century transformed their ideas, how photography mediated their conceptions of self-representation, and how their appropriation of photographic thinking created a new kind of autobiography"--Provided by publisher.

Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays

Author : Doris Alexander
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 0820327093
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (327 users)

Download Eugene O'Neill's Last Plays PDF Full or another Format written by Doris Alexander and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws on research concerning the lives of Eugene O'Neill, his family and his circle. It corrects and expands the biographical record on him and distinguishes the man and his life from the creations that were inspired by, and drew on, that life. Included are his attempted suicide, his tuberculosis, and his relationship with his parents.