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19 produkter
Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring …
Altered Egos
Authority in American Autobiography
Inbunden, 1989
818 kr
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This work is concerned with the `authority' of autobiography. Couser considers recent critiques of the notion of autobiography as issuing from, determined by, referring to a pre-existing self. He examines the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, and Mark Twain and appraises the …
Altered Egos
Authority in American Autobiography
E-bok, 1989
506 kr
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This work explores the "authority" of autobiography in several related senses: first, the idea that autobiography is authoritative writing because it is presumably verifiable; second, the idea that one''s life is one''s exclusive textual domain; third, the idea that, because of the apparent …
Memoir
An Introduction
Inbunden, 2012
1650 kr
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Each year brings a glut of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most …
Memoir
An Introduction
Häftad, 2012
535 kr
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Each year brings a glut of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most …
Memoir
An Introduction
E-bok, 2011
364 kr
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Each year brings a batch of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most …
Memoir
An Introduction
E-bok, 2011
364 kr
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Each year brings a batch of new memoirs, ranging from works by former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in the academy and a mainstay in most …
True Relations
Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern
Av G. Thomas Couser, Joseph Fichtelberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1138 kr
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The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern …
True Relations
Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern
Av G. Thomas Couser, Joseph Fichtelberg
E-bok, 1998
1344 kr
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The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern …
Work of Life Writing
Essays and Lectures
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the …
Work of Life Writing
Essays and Lectures
Häftad, 2022
749 kr
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Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the …
Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
E-bok, 2010
643 kr
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"Thomas Couser''s Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a ''life worth living'' for persons with disabilities. Couser''s work engages these debates by …
Letter to My Father
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
490 kr
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Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve …
Letter to My Father
A Memoir
E-bok, 2017
530 kr
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Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve …
Vulnerable Subjects
Ethics and Life Writing
Inbunden, 2003
1903 kr
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"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects—persons who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship, unable to represent themselves in writing, or unable to offer meaningful consent to their representation …
Vulnerable Subjects
Ethics and Life Writing
Häftad, 2003
547 kr
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"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects—persons who are liable to exposure by someone with whom they are involved in an intimate or trust-based relationship, unable to represent themselves in writing, or unable to offer meaningful consent to their representation …
Work of Life Writing
Essays and Lectures
E-bok, 2021
809 kr
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Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the …
Work of Life Writing
Essays and Lectures
E-bok, 2021
809 kr
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Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the …
Recovery Letters
Addressed to People Experiencing Depression
Av G. Thomas Couser, James Withey m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2022
223 kr
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In 2012, The Recovery Letters was launched to host a series of letters online written by people recovering from depression, addressed to those currently affected by a mental health condition. Addressed to “Dear You,” the inspirational and heartfelt letters provided hope and support to those …
