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102 produkter
Memory of Water
Inbunden, 2013
537 kr
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Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in The Memory of Water - all of them accompanied by the author's own stunning artwork - describe his …
Life Writing After Empire
Av Astrid Rasch
Häftad, 2018
861 kr
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A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisation profoundly affected individual subjectivities too. Life Writing After Empire examines how people around the globe have made sense of the …
Philosophy and Life Writing
Av D. L. LeMahieu, Christopher Cowley
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing.The contributors interrogate the writings of Teresa of Avila, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John …
Writing Lives Together
Romantic and Victorian auto/biography
Av Felicity James, Julian North
Häftad, 2019
764 kr
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A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives …
Life Writing and Celebrity
Exploring Intersections
Inbunden, 2019
2664 kr
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This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects.With contributions on the 18th-century actress Peg Woffington, Charles Dickens, Mary …
Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions
Av Hywel Dix
Inbunden, 2020
1748 kr
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This volume applies the insight and methods of career construction theory to explore how autobiographical writing is used in different professional careers, from fiction and journalism to education and medicine. It draws attention to the fact that a career is a particular kind of artefact with …
Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
Narrative and Autobiographical Thinking across the Professions
Av Hywel Dix
Häftad, 2023
744 kr
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This volume applies the insight and methods of career construction theory to explore how autobiographical writing is used in different professional careers, from fiction and journalism to education and medicine. It draws attention to the fact that a career is a particular kind of artefact with …
Women and Ageing
Private Meaning, Social Lives
Av Margaret O’Neill, Michaela Schrage-Früh
Inbunden, 2020
2886 kr
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This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social and cultural gerontology, the contributors explore the subjective accounts and diverse voices of …
Women and Ageing
Private Meaning, Social Lives
Av Margaret O’Neill, Michaela Schrage-Früh
Häftad, 2022
794 kr
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This edited collection considers the ways older women’s life narratives redefine culturally imposed conceptions of what it means to grow older. Drawing on research from age studies as well as social and cultural gerontology, the contributors explore the subjective accounts and diverse voices of …
Border Crossings
Essays in Identity and Belonging
Av Paul Arthur, Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar
Häftad, 2020
794 kr
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The border between intimate memory and historical revelation is explored in this wide-ranging collection, which features original contributions from leading figures in the life-writing field from Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the USA.The transmission and preservation of personal knowledge …
Limits of Life Writing
Av David McCooey, Maria Takolander
Häftad, 2020
794 kr
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In the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous. But if life writing is now almost universal—engaged with on our phones; reported in our news; the generator of capital, no less—then what are the limits of life writing? Where does it begin and end? Do we live in a culture of life writing that …
Philosophy and Life Writing
Av D. L. LeMahieu, Christopher Cowley
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing.The contributors interrogate the writings of Teresa of Avila, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John …
Selfless Ego
Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing
Av Lucia Galli, Franz Xaver Erhard
Inbunden, 2021
2886 kr
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The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation, this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity construction, eluding the strictures imposed …
Selfless Ego
Configurations of Identity in Tibetan Life Writing
Av Lucia Galli, Franz Xaver Erhard
Häftad, 2023
744 kr
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The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation, this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity construction, eluding the strictures imposed …
Body Language
Narrating illness and disability
Av G. Couser
Häftad, 2019
828 kr
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As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment – we are all vulnerable subjects. So it might seem natural and inevitable that the most universal, most democratic, form of literature – autobiography – should address these common features of human …
Trauma Texts
Av Gillian Whitlock, Kate Douglas
Inbunden, 2009
2886 kr
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These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: …
Trauma Texts
Av Gillian Whitlock, Kate Douglas
Häftad, 2015
861 kr
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These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: …
Limits of Life Writing
Av David McCooey, Maria Takolander
Inbunden, 2018
2886 kr
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In the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous. But if life writing is now almost universal—engaged with on our phones; reported in our news; the generator of capital, no less—then what are the limits of life writing? Where does it begin and end? Do we live in a culture of life writing that …
Haven't Any News
Ruby's Letters from the Fifties
Av Edna Staebler, Marlene Kadar
Häftad, 1995
310 kr
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""Ruby wrote letters home almost every week....She wrote anything that came into her head: about her children and Fred, her housekeeping, food, clothes, her friends, activities, schemes for making money, her dreams for the future....Her letters, nave, intimate and lively, were always optimistic or …
Curtain
Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
Häftad, 2003
322 kr
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Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people - the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece …
Chasing the Comet
A Scottish-Canadian Life
Häftad, 2002
337 kr
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""Dour Scot"" is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day, multicultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age. Throughout the tour he shares decades of laughter, tears, …
Repossessing the World
Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women
Häftad, 2002
528 kr
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Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women's personal lives but also of their desire to …
Where I Come from
Av Vijay Agnew
Häftad, 2003
404 kr
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""Where do you come from?"" When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her ""Where do you come from?"" She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been born and where she grew …
Queen of Peace Room
Häftad, 2002
332 kr
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What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an …
Through the Hitler Line
Memoirs of an Infantry Chaplain
Häftad, 2003
322 kr
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Laurence Wilmot's Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot's book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest …
Pursuing Giraffe
A 1950s Adventure
Häftad, 2006
303 kr
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In the 1950s, Anne Innis Dagg was a young zoologist with a lifelong love of giraffe and a dream to study them in Africa. Based on extensive journals and letters home, Pursuing Giraffe vividly chronicles the realization of that dream and the year that she spent studying and documenting giraffe …
Food That Really Schmecks
Häftad, 2006
402 kr
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In the 1960s, Edna Staebler moved in with an Old Order Mennonite family to absorb their oral history and learn about Mennonite culture and cooking. From this fieldwork came the cookbook Food That Really Schmecks. Originally published in 1968, Schmecks instantly became a classic, selling tens of …
Life Writing and Celebrity
Exploring Intersections
Häftad, 2021
733 kr
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This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects.With contributions on the 18th-century actress Peg Woffington, Charles Dickens, Mary …
Essays in Life Writing
Inbunden, 2021
2664 kr
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This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. …
Essays in Life Writing
Häftad, 2023
687 kr
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This book showcases a unique, innovative form for contemporary life narrative scholarship. Life Narrative is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field defined through attention to diverse styles of personal and auto/biographical narration and to subjectivity and ethics in acts of self-representation. …
