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Mirror Talk
Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography
Av Susanna Egan
Häftad, 1999
562 kr
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Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in …
Patterns of Experience in Autobiography
Av Susanna Egan
Häftad, 2011
660 kr
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Egan asks why autobiographers use patterns -- such as myths of paradise and paradise lost, the journey, conversion, and confession -- taken from fiction to express personal experiences. She suggests that these stages of the written life derive from psychological imperatives that determine how the …
Burdens of Proof
Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography
Av Susanna Egan
Häftad, 2011
472 kr
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Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. In the process, they …
Tracing the Autobiographical
Av Marlene Kadar, Susanna Egan m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes and …
