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Metabiography
Reflecting on Biography
Inbunden, 2020
989 kr
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This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in …
Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical
Negotiated Truths
Av Meg Jensen
Inbunden, 2019
1083 kr
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This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping …
Women’s Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe
Häftad, 2019
961 kr
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This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses the quest for personal …
Autofiction in English
Av Hywel Dix
Häftad, 2019
1799 kr
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This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other areas of French theory, …
Memories from the Frontline
Memoirs and Meanings of The Great War from Britain, France and Germany
Av Jerry Palmer
Häftad, 2019
1083 kr
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This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany. It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the …
Girls, Autobiography, Media
Gender and Self-Mediation in Digital Economies
Av Emma Maguire
Häftad, 2019
1083 kr
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This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.In thinking about how girlhood as a …
Women's Life Writing and the Practice of Reading
She Reads to Write Herself
Av Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1680 kr
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This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women’s life writing texts such as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs. It covers a great variety of writers from literary classics …
Metabiography
Reflecting on Biography
Häftad, 2021
989 kr
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This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through to contemporary experiments in …
After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
Inbunden, 2020
605 kr
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first …
After Ancient Biography
Modern Types and Classical Archetypes
Häftad, 2021
605 kr
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first …
Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives
Av Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley
Inbunden, 2020
1322 kr
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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works …
Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives
Av Marleen Rensen, Christopher Wiley
Häftad, 2021
1322 kr
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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works …
New Forms of Self-Narration
Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights
Inbunden, 2020
665 kr
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This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism. It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo Lee, Yeonmi Park, Bana Alabed, …
New Forms of Self-Narration
Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights
Häftad, 2021
665 kr
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This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism. It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo Lee, Yeonmi Park, Bana Alabed, …
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
Av Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1560 kr
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and …
Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
Av Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1560 kr
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age of ecological disasters and …
Autofictional
Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Av Alexandra Effe, Hannie Lawlor
Inbunden, 2022
605 kr
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a …
Autofictional
Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Av Alexandra Effe, Hannie Lawlor
Häftad, 2022
484 kr
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a …
Text and Image in Women's Life Writing
Picturing the Female Self
Av Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1680 kr
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This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. …
Text and Image in Women's Life Writing
Picturing the Female Self
Av Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1680 kr
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This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. …
Photographer as Autobiographer
Inbunden, 2022
1202 kr
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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. …
Photographer as Autobiographer
Häftad, 2023
1202 kr
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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to the text/image relationship. …
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Av Julia Novak, Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Inbunden, 2022
1560 kr
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and …
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
Av Julia Novak, Caitríona Ní Dhúill
Häftad, 2023
1560 kr
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and …
Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years
Av Teresa Bruś
Inbunden, 2023
1441 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected in media images. Focusing on …
Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years
Av Teresa Bruś
Häftad, 2024
1441 kr
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected in media images. Focusing on …
Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature
Narrativising Rural Lifescape
Inbunden, 2024
484 kr
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This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of ‘nature life writing’ in the Anthropocene. Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, Jonna Jinton, Annabel Margaret and Paola …
Mix Tape Memories
Movement and Difference in Life Writing
Inbunden, 2023
1441 kr
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This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ …
Mix Tape Memories
Movement and Difference in Life Writing
Häftad, 2025
426 kr
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This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told in a series of ‘tracks’ …
Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writing
Av Esther Pujolràs-Noguer, Felicity Hand
Inbunden, 2023
1322 kr
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This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The two motifs that run through the chapters – mourning and resilience – are theoretical frameworks that have so far not been brought …
