New Essays on Life Writing and the Body
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Pub.
2009
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; VALUES MADE FLESH; CONTROL, CREATIVITY AND THE BODY IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S "A SKETCH OF THE PAST"; GERTRUDE STEIN'S "EMOTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY"; PART II; THEY WEREN'T WHAT THEY ATE; THE FIT AND ATHLETIC BODY IN NEW WOMEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; DRESSING THE PART; PART III; INTIMACY, ERASURE AND THE OTHER; THE EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY; IMAGES OF THE FAMILY BODY IN THE ADOPTEE SEARCH NARRATIVE; PART IV; REFIGURING THE MASCULINE BODY IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF DISABLED AMERICAN MEN. THE BROKEN MIRROR OF IDENTITY IN LUCY GREALY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACEMEMOIR AND (LACK OF) MEMORY; SIDE BY SIDE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX. In light of materialist revisions of the Cartesian dual self and the increased recognition of memoir and autobiography as a crucial cultural index, the physical body has emerged in the last twenty-five years as an increasingly inescapable object of inquiry, speculation, and theory that intersects all of the various subgenres of life writing. New Essays on Life Writing and the Body thus offers a timely, original, focused, and yet appropriately interdisciplinary study of life writing. Thi .. Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1443808032 9781443808033 |