Writing life writing : narrative, history, autobiography
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Writing life writing : narrative, history, autobiography
（Routledge auto/biography studies）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Description
Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing. The first section, "Narrative," argues that narrative is not only a literary form but also a social and cultural practice, and finally a mode of cognition and an expression of our most basic physiology. The next section, "Life Writing: Historical Forms," makes the case for the historical value of the subjectivity recorded in ego-documents. The essays in the final section, "Autobiography Now," identify primary motives for engaging in self-narration in an age characterized by digital media and quantum cosmology.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Craig Howes
I. Narrative
"What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography?"
"Selfhood, Autobiography, and Interdisciplinary Inquiry: A Reply to George Butte"
"Narrative Identity and Narrative Imperialism: A Response to Galen Strawson and James Phelan"
"Travelling with Narrative: From Text to Body"
II. Life Writing: Historical Forms
"Writing Biography: A Perspective from Autobiography"
"Eye and I: Negotiating Distance in Eyewitness Narrative"
"Living in History: Autobiography, Memoir(s), and Memoires"
"History and Life Writing: The Value of Subjectivity"
III. Autobiography Now
"Autobiography as Cosmogram"
"Self and Self-Representation Online and Off"
"Autobiography and the Big Picture"
IV. Epilogue: One Man's Story
"My Father . . ."
"James Olney and the Study of Autobiography"
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