Autobiography, ecology, and the well-placed self : the growth of natural biography in contemporary American life writing / Nathan Straight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straight, Nathan.

Contributor:

Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 59.

Modern American literature: new approaches, 1078-0521 ; v. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Autobiography.

Ecology in literature.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2011]

Summary:

Straight (English, Utah State U.-Brigham City) contributes to the growing scholarship on autobiography by looking for a central focus for reading the genre and a set of organizing principles that are coherent enough to be useful yet flexible enough to encompass the range of actual writing. He discusses self and place in dialogue, William Kittredge's Great Basin reckonings, Terry Tempest Williams' fluid subjectivity, Mary Clearman Blew's collective identity, and diverse narratives of the well-placed self. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

"Who are we? where are we": self and place in dialogue

Bearings from a broken center: William Kittredge's great basin reckonings

Something in the water: Terry Tempest Williams' fluid subjectivity

Pieced together: Mary Clearman Blew's collective identity

Trading in the telescope: diverse narratives of the well-placed self

Selected readings in natural biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert E. Visk, W'28, Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1433112256

OCLC:

704907798

Publisher Number:

99944975509