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Reading Autobiography Now : An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Sidonie, author.
- Watson, Julia, 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (446 pages)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, third edition by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, explores the diverse field of life narrative studies. This comprehensive guide provides an updated theoretical framework for understanding life narratives, examining genres like biography, autofiction, and autotheory. It includes discussions on truth claims, featuring narratives by authors such as Annie Ernaux. The book serves as a resource for instructors and graduate students in literature, history, cultural studies, and more, offering strategies and resources for analyzing autobiographical texts. It aims to engage readers with the complexities of life narratives across various media, including graphic memoirs and online platforms. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Theorizing Life Narrative
- Chapter 1. Defining and Discerning Life Narrative Forms
- Chapter 2. Autobiographical Subjects
- Chapter 3. Autobiographical Acts
- Chapter 4. What about Autobiographical Truth?
- Part II: A Guide to Reading Life Narrative
- Chapter 5. Reading Life Narratives: A Tool Kit of Strategies
- Chapter 6. Kinds of Life Narratives: A Compendium of Key Concepts and Genres
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Publication History
- Index
- Author Biographies Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-7085-8
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