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Life writing : the spirit of the age and the state of the art / edited by Meg Jensen and Jane Jordan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography as a literary form.
- Autobiography.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In our age, self-publishing, self-broadcasting, and telling stories about our own lives and the lives of others are all-pervasive. This is also the age of the witness, the age of testimony in which first-hand accounts, personal experience, life change and evolution are valued, for good or ill, over distanced reflection. What are we to make of all this telling of lives? The essays collected in Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art from writers and academics associated wi...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Life writing that defines an age
- pt. II. Marginal lives and historical revision
- pt. III. Writing science lives
- pt. IV. Writing the self
- pt. V. Writing lives in the arts
- pt. VI. The author as subject : writing literary lives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-231).
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48112-6
- 9786612481123
- 1-4438-0860-1
- OCLC:
- 1183834956
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