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  1. The Production of Lateness
    Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative
    Author: Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen

    This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably.... more

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    This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably. Prevalent "peak-and-decline" models suggest that artists, as they grow old, cease to produce highquality work. Aiming to counter such ageist discourses, the present study proposes a new ethics of reading literary texts by elderly authors. For this purpose, it develops a methodology that consolidates textual analysis with cultural gerontology

     
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    ISBN: 9783772056987
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    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 3105 ; HU 3475
    Edition: [1. Auflage]
    Series: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) ; 146
    Subjects: Literature; Late Style; Old Age; Gender; Autobiography; Kreativität <Motiv>; Altern <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Didion, Joan (1934-2021); Blixen, Karen (1885-1962); Barth, John (1930-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (205 Seiten)
  2. Reading autobiography
    a guide for interpreting life narratives
    Author: Smith, Sidonie
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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    ISBN: 9780816669851; 9780816669868
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Subjects: Autobiography; Authors; Interpretation; Literatur; Geschichtsschreibung; Autobiografie
    Scope: xiv, 394 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. The new midlife self-writing
    Author: Wittman, Emily Ondine
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

    In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and... more

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    In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories characteristic of earlier self-writing by switching their orientation to face the future and by celebrating midlife as growing season, a time of Bildung. In each chapter, writer-by-writer, she demonstrates how the midlife self-writers in question trace confident and future-oriented paths through the past, rejecting triumphalism and complicating both identity and individualism, just as they refine and redefine genres. Exploring these midlife self-writers as chroniclers of Generation X's midlife in particular, Wittman coins the term "digital absence" to map their unique relationship to new forms of knowledge and knowledge gathering in an Information Age that they are both of and set apart from. She theorizes that their works share a "pedagogical style," a style characterized by clarity, exposition, and classical rhetoric, and a concern with the classroom, offering a warrant for reading them in pedagogical terms in concert with traditional scholarly approaches. Furthermore, Wittman presents readers with an overview of future midlife self-writing as well as self-writing overall, concluding that we might be looking at the scholarship of the future

     
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    ISBN: 9781003180050; 1003180051; 9781000534856; 1000534855; 9781000534863; 1000534863
    Series: Routledge focus on literature
    Subjects: Autobiography; Middle age in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Other subjects: Cusk, Rachel (1967-); Gay, Roxane; Manguso, Sarah (1974-); Nelson, Maggie (1973-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)
  4. Herman Hesse's fictions of the self
    autobiography and the confessional imagination
    Author: Stelzig, Eugene L.
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ

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  5. <<The>> commodification of identity in Victorian narrative
    autobiography, sensation, and the literary marketplace
    Author: Grass, Sean C.
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book market, insights from the business ledgers of Victorian publishers and... more

     

    In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book market, insights from the business ledgers of Victorian publishers and close readings of mid-century novels, Sean Grass demonstrates the close links between these genres and broader Victorian textual and material cultures. This book offers fresh perspectives on major works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade, while also featuring archival research that reveals the volume, diversity, and marketability of Victorian autobiographical texts for the first time. Grass presents life-writing not as a stand-alone genre, but as an integral part of a broader movement of literary, cultural, legal and economic practices through which the Victorians transformed identity into a textual object of capitalist exchange

     
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    Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
    Subjects: English prose literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Autobiography; Capitalism and literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 279 Seiten), Illustrationen
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  6. Reconstructing illness
    studies in pathography
    Author: Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Ind.

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    ISBN: 1557531269
    RVK Categories: EC 2430
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Subjects: Attitude to Death; Attitude to Health; Autobiography; Biography as Topic; Biography as a literary form; Disease; Diseases; Medicine in Literature; Patients; Sick; Sick
    Scope: XXII, 289 Seiten
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-275
  7. Being for myself alone
    origins of Jewish autobiography
    Author: Moseley, Marcus
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

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    ISBN: 9780804763974
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    Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
    Subjects: Autobiography; Autobiography; Jewish authors; Jewish literature; Self in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 650 Seiten)
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 599-624

    Online-Erscheinungsdatum laut Landingpage: 21. Januar 2022
  8. Scritture di donne
    la memoria restituita : atti del convegno, Roma, 23-24 marzo 2004
    Contributor: Caffiero, Marina (Publisher); Venzo, Manola Ida (Publisher)
    Published: marzo 2012
    Publisher:  viella, Roma

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    Contributor: Caffiero, Marina (Publisher); Venzo, Manola Ida (Publisher)
    Language: Italian
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    ISBN: 9788883349157
    Edition: Prima edizione
    Series: <<La>> memoria restituita ; 1
    Subjects: Literatur; Autobiography; Literature; Women and literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (405 Seiten)
  9. <<The>> Oxford history of life-writing
    Volume 7, Postwar to contemporary, 1945-2020 / Patrick Hayes
    Author: Hayes, Patrick
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom

    This volume is devoted to life-writing in English from 1945 to the present day, a period in which life-writing became an increasingly popular and accessible form. more

     

    This volume is devoted to life-writing in English from 1945 to the present day, a period in which life-writing became an increasingly popular and accessible form.

     
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    Contributor: Leader, Zachary (Publisher)
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Autobiography; Autobiography; Biography; Biography; Biography in literature; Autobiography in literature; Historiography
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 457 Seiten)
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite [419]-446
  10. American women activists and autobiography
    rhetorical lives
    Author: Ostman, Heather
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

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    ISBN: 9781032050768
    Series: Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication
    Subjects: Women; Women political activists; Women social reformers; Autobiography; Rhetoric; Feminism
    Scope: 183 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [175]-180
  11. Writing the heavenly frontier
    metaphor, geography, and flight autobiography in America 1927-1954
    Author: Turner, Denice H.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- WRITING THE HEAVENLY FRONTIER -- IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHIES AND THE INVENTION OF THE AERIAL SUBJECT -- FROM PILOT TO POET: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LINDBERGH -- POLAR FRONTIERS AND PUBLIC FICTIONS: SKYWARD WITH RICHARD E. BYRD --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- WRITING THE HEAVENLY FRONTIER -- IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHIES AND THE INVENTION OF THE AERIAL SUBJECT -- FROM PILOT TO POET: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LINDBERGH -- POLAR FRONTIERS AND PUBLIC FICTIONS: SKYWARD WITH RICHARD E. BYRD -- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DEMANDS AND HISTORICAL REALITIES -- JIMMY COLLINS AND THE TETHERS OF MATERIALITY -- FLIGHT AS EMANCIPATION: WILLIAM J. POWELL’S DREAM OF BLACK WINGS -- THE FLYING BOUDOIR -- THE SOUND OF WINGS: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES BY AMELIA EARHART -- LOUISE THADEN AND THE TETHERS OF MOTHERHOOD -- FLIGHT AS UPWARD MOBILITY: JACKIE COCHRAN AND THE STARS AT NOON -- TRANSCENDENCE ABROAD -- CULTIVATING THE GARDEN: ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY AND THE NOBLE STRUGGLE -- ESCAPING THE WILDERNESS: ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH AND THE EPIC JOURNEY -- LATE CENTURY METAPHORS: LARRY WALTERS AND THE RICH MAN’S WEDDING CAKE -- INDEX. Writing the Heavenly Frontier celebrates the early voices of the air as it examines the sky as a metaphorical and political landscape. While flight histories usually focus on the physical dangers of early aviation, this book introduces the figurative liabilities of ascension. Early pilot-writers not only grappled with an unwieldy machine; they also grappled with poetics that were extremely selective. Tropes that cast Charles Lindbergh as the transcendent hero of the new millennium were the same ones that kept women, black Americans, and indigenous peoples imaginatively tethered to the ground. The most popular flight autobiographies in the United States posited a hero who rose from the mundane to the miraculous; and yet the most startling autobiographies point out the social factors that limited or forbade vertical movement—both literally and figuratively. A survey of pilot writing, the book will appeal to flight enthusiasts and people interested in American autobiography and culture. But it will also appeal strongly to readers interested in the poetics and politics of place

     
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    Series: Costerus ; new ser., 187
    Subjects: Air pilots; Autobiography; Aeronautics ; Human factors; Air pilots; Flight; Biography; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 221 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  12. The self in transition
    East German autobiographical writing before and after unification : essays in honour of Dennis Tate
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Foreword /Ian Wallace -- Introduction /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Omissions and Revisions: Hans Marchwitza’s Autobiographical Writing /Martin Kane -- Verehrter Gen. Ulbricht: Negotiations... more

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    Preliminary Material /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Foreword /Ian Wallace -- Introduction /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Omissions and Revisions: Hans Marchwitza’s Autobiographical Writing /Martin Kane -- Verehrter Gen. Ulbricht: Negotiations of Self and Socialist Identity in Greta Kuckhoff’s Letters /Joanne Sayner -- ‘Ein Kommunist kann nicht die Politik seiner Partei vom Blickwinkel seines Einzelschicksals her begreifen’: Rudi Goguels Schreiben über das eigene Leben /Helmut Peitsch -- Why Stay? Shifting Perspectives on ‘Inner Emigration’ and Resistance in the Works of Elfriede Brüning /Sara Jones -- Heinrich von Kleist in Christa Wolfs Kein Ort. Nirgends /Ricarda Schmidt -- ‘Aber erzählen läßt sich nichts ohne Zeit’: Time and Atemporality in Christa Wolf’s Subjectively Authentic Narratives /Georgina Paul -- From Vergangenheitsbewältigung to Living with Ghosts: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster and Leibhaftig /Renate Rechtien -- Poetic Reflections on Stunted Lives: Wulf Kirsten’s Contribution to East German Autobiographical Writing /Axel Goodbody -- Institutionen hatten ‘sich in der Landschaft festgesetzt wie ägyptische Pyramiden’: Volker Brauns Lebens/Werk und sein Hinze-Kunze-Roman in der Dialektik von Stagnation und Radikalkritik /Heinz-Peter Preußer -- ‘Ein Botschafter des Vergessenen’: Günter de Bruyn, the Chronicler /Owen Evans -- Re-writing My Life and Work: Jurij Brězan's Autobiographical Writings /Peter Barker -- ‘Idylle mit Gewehr’: Volker Brauns Versuche einer Annäherung an den Vater in Das Mittagsmahl /Christine Cosentino -- Vom verblendeten Selbst zum gewendeten Selbst: Der Wandel in der narrativen Identität in den Selbstreflexionen Günter Schabowskis nach 1989 /Ute Hirsekorn -- ‘Wer schreibt, kann nicht töten’: Writing and Life in Reinhard Jirgl’s Abtrünnig: Roman aus der nervösen Zeit /David Clarke -- Experience, Military Fiction and the Shameful Self in Ingo Schulze’s Neue Leben /Andrew Plowman -- Memories of a GDR-Watcher, oder: Die westdeutsche Germanistik und die DDR-Literatur /Hannes Krauss -- Dennis Tate: List of Publications /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Contributors /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody -- Index /David Clarke and Axel Goodbody. Taking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context. Many of the contributions also discuss how authors have sought to understand lives which have spanned the National Socialist, socialist and post-unification periods. This volume will be particularly valuable to students and researchers working on contemporary Germany and its culture, as well as to those with an interest in autobiographical writing

     
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    Series: German monitor ; no. 75
    Subjects: Autobiographical fiction, German; Autobiographical fiction, German; Autobiography; Biography; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
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    "Dennis Tate: list of publications": pages 285-292 -- Includes bibliographical references and index
  13. The body as medium and metaphor
    Author: Westley, Hannah
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Imaging the Absent Subject: Marcel Duchamp’s Le Grand Verre -- The Autoportrait: Michel Leiris’ L’Âge d’Homme -- Mimicking Mimesis: Francis Bacon’s Portraits -- Textual Imagery: Visualizing the Self in the... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Imaging the Absent Subject: Marcel Duchamp’s Le Grand Verre -- The Autoportrait: Michel Leiris’ L’Âge d’Homme -- Mimicking Mimesis: Francis Bacon’s Portraits -- Textual Imagery: Visualizing the Self in the Writing of Bernard Noël and Gisèle Prassinos -- From the informe to the abject: shifting morphologies in the art of Louise Bourgeois and Orlan -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century’s departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers – including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois and Orlan – to articulate the twentieth century’s radical revisions of subjectivity that originated from and returned to representations of the word, the image, and the body. This volume will be of interest to students of both French Literature and Art History, particularly those who are interested in the interdisciplinary exchanges between visual arts and literature

     
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    Series: Faux Titre, 312 ; v. v. 312
    Subjects: Autobiography; Art and literature; French literature; Self-portraits; Art and literature; Autobiography; French literature; Self-portraits; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
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  14. Spaces of belonging
    home, culture, and identity in 20th century French autobiography
    Author: Jones, Elizabeth Houston
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Space and Literature -- Contemporary Life Writing -- Medico-Cultural Spaces in Hervé Guibert’s AIDS Texts -- Doubrovsky: Autofictional Constructions of Self and Place -- Robin: Lost, Imaginary, Urban and Moving... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Space and Literature -- Contemporary Life Writing -- Medico-Cultural Spaces in Hervé Guibert’s AIDS Texts -- Doubrovsky: Autofictional Constructions of Self and Place -- Robin: Lost, Imaginary, Urban and Moving Home Spaces -- Life Writing and Postmodern Cartography -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Questions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate. The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the ‘postmodern maps’ that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today. Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing

     
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    Series: Spatial practices ; 3
    Subjects: Autobiographies; Authors, French; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Geography in literature; Autobiography; Authors, French; Autobiographies; Autobiography; Geography in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Biography; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Doubrovsky, Serge; Guibert, Hervé; Robin, Régine (1939-); Doubrovsky, Serge; Guibert, Hervé; Robin, Régine
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index
  15. Borderlines
    autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing
    Author: Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Autobiography and Fiction -- Memory and the Autobiographical Process /Lillian Hellman , Georges Perec and Paul Auster -- The Use of Narrative in Autobiography /Suzannah Lessard , Peter Handke and Jenny Diski --... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Autobiography and Fiction -- Memory and the Autobiographical Process /Lillian Hellman , Georges Perec and Paul Auster -- The Use of Narrative in Autobiography /Suzannah Lessard , Peter Handke and Jenny Diski -- Gender and Fiction in Women's Autobiographical Writing /Janet Frame and Marie Cardinal -- Autobiography and Journeys Between Cultures /Eva Hoffman , Michael Ondaatje and Kyoko Mori -- Biography in Autobiography -- Photographs in Autobiography -- Postmodernism and Borderlines -- Bibliography -- Index. Borderlines. Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing locates and investigates the borderlines between autobiography and fiction in various kinds of life-writing dating from the last thirty years. This volume offers a valuable comparative approach to texts by French, English, American, and German authors to illustrate the different forms of experimentation with the borders between genres and literary modes. Gudmundsdóttir tackles important contemporary concerns such as autobiography’s relationship to postmodernism by investigating themes such as memory and crossing cultural divides, the use of photographs in autobiography and the role of narrative in life-writing. This work is of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, postmodernism and contemporary life-writing

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789401201063
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    Series: Postmodern studies ; 33
    Subjects: Autobiography; Autobiographical fiction; Prose literature; Postmodernism (Literature)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and index
  16. Elias Canettis Autobiographie in der deutschen Presse
    Author: Schaufler, Erich W.
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston u.a.

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 0773495932
    RVK Categories: GN 3722
    Series: Studies in Russian and German ; 6
    Studies in German language and literature ; 11
    Subjects: Autobiografieën; Autobiographie; Perswezen; Receptie; Écrivains autrichiens - Biographies - Histoire et critique; Geschichte; Rezeption; Authors, Austrian; Autobiography; Rezeption; Zeitungsartikel; Autobiografische Literatur; Rezension
    Other subjects: Canetti, Elias <1905-1994> - Appréciation - Pays de langue allemande; Canetti, Elias <1905-1994> - Critique et interprétation - Histoire; Canetti, Elias <1905-1994>; Canetti, Elias <1905-1994>; Canetti, Elias (1905-1994)
    Scope: XVIII, 249 S.
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    Zugl.: Graz, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 1990

    Zugl.: Graz, Univ., Diplomarbeit, 1990
  17. White Field, black seeds: Nordic literacy practices in the long nineteenth century
    Contributor: Kuismin, Anna (Publisher); Driscoll, M. J. (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki, Finland

    "White field, black seeds – who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone. And... more

     

    "White field, black seeds – who can sow? Although the riddle from which this these words are taken comes from oral tradition, it refers to the ability to write, a skill which in most Nordic countries was not regarded as necessary for everyone. And yet a significant number of ordinary people with no access to formal schooling took up the pen and produced a variety of highly interesting texts: diaries, letters, memoirs, collections of folklore and handwritten newspapers.

     

    This collection presents the work of primarily Nordic scholars from fields such as linguistics, history, literature and folklore studies who share an interest in the production, dissemination and reception of written texts by non-privileged people during the long nineteenth century. "

     
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    Contributor: Kuismin, Anna (Publisher); Driscoll, M. J. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522227492; 9789522224927
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    Subjects: Literacy; Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: ability to write; literacy; literary research; folk linguistics; linguistic anthropology; sociolinguistics; Autobiography; Autodidacticism; Finland; Finnish language; Finnish Literature Society; Folklore; Iceland; Sweden
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (289 p.)
  18. The Production of Lateness : Old Age and Creativity in Contemporary Narrative
    Author: Rivera Godoy-Benesch, Rahel
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen

    This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably.... more

     

    This study examines how selected authors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries write about their creative processes in old age and thus purposefully produce a late style of their own. Late-life creativity has not always been viewed favourably. Prevalent „peak-and-decline“ models suggest that artists, as they grow old, cease to produce highquality work. Aiming to counter such ageist discourses, the present study proposes a new ethics of reading literary texts by elderly authors. For this purpose, it develops a methodology that consolidates textual analysis with cultural gerontology.

     
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  19. Studies in Strindberg
    Author: Robinson, Michael
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Ubiquity Press

    In this volume Strindberg's accomplishments as a dramatist are set against his achievements in other fields, as an autobiographer, painter, letter writer and theatre director. There are studies of individual plays, in which Strindberg's theatre is... more

     

    In this volume Strindberg's accomplishments as a dramatist are set against his achievements in other fields, as an autobiographer, painter, letter writer and theatre director. There are studies of individual plays, in which Strindberg's theatre is related both to naturalism and the theatre of the absurd, and of the role played by his life-long interest in historical drama.

     

    Other essays range from studies of the problems posed by Strindberg's preoccupation with converting his own life into literature to a consideration of the importance he placed on letterwriting as a model for writing of all kinds. His letters are also used to explore his ideas about the theatre.

     

    A recurring concern is with the period of turmoil known as the Inferno Crisis, in which Strindberg refashioned himself as a writer. Robinson examines the importance of Strindberg's painting for his renewal as a writer and situates the achievement of his later works in relation to Symbolism and to Musical Expressionism.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Theatre studies; Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: august strindberg; theatre; inferno; drama; Arnold Schoenberg; Autobiography
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (204 p.)
  20. R.S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity
    Author: Morgan, Christopher
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press

    Christopher Morgan writes with keen critical insight on the controversial poet R. S. Thomas, considered to be one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to treat Thomas's entire oeuvre and will prove to be an... more

     

    Christopher Morgan writes with keen critical insight on the controversial poet R. S. Thomas, considered to be one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to treat Thomas's entire oeuvre and will prove to be an indispensible guide and companion to the complete poems. Morgan not only recontextualises and reinterprets the poet's major themes of self, nature, and the search for deity; he breaks new ground with a penetrating investigation of Thomas's long preoccupation with the philosophical and practical implications of science and technology. The book is divided into three parts, each of which interprets the development of a major theme over Thomas's twenty-seven volumes, probing these particular themes and particular poems, with a meticulous insight. The book also treats Thomas's work as a complex and interrelated whole, as a body of work that comprises a single artistic achievement, and assesses that achievement within the context of an array of major literary figures from Montaigne to Seamus Heaney and Wallace Stevens. 'R. S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity' proves invaluable as a beginner's introduction to the Welsh poet, as a student's guide to critical thinking about the poet's work, and as a provocative new step in scholarly studies.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781526137616
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    Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Other subjects: poet; poetry; welsh; wales; Applied science; Autobiography; God; Mysticism; R. S. Thomas
  21. Intersex narratives
    shifts in the representation of intersex lives in North American literature and popular culture
    Author: Amato, Viola
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839434192
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    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; MS 2870 ; HV 15870
    DDC Categories: 300
    Series: Queer studies ; Volume 12
    Subjects: USA; Prosa; Intersexualität <Motiv>; Geschichte 1993-2010;
    Other subjects: Activism; Autobiography; Body; Cultural Studies; Feminism; Gender; Gender Studies; Medicine; Popular Culture; Queer Theory; Sexuality
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (315 Seiten)
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    Dissertation, Humboldt Universität Berlin, [2014]
  22. Bread, knowledge and freedom
    A study of nineteenth-century working class autobiography
    Author: Vincent, David
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Methuen, London u.a.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0416346707; 0905118553
    RVK Categories: HL 1390 ; NW 8300 ; NW 8500
    Series: University paperbacks ; 790.
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; Working class in literature; Autobiography
    Scope: 221 S.
  23. Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation : A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
    Author: Renza, Louis A.
    Published: 20171019
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan’s lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll precedents; their discographical details and concert... more

     

    Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan’s lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as “poems.” Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan’s 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal “autobiography” in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.

     
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    ISBN: 9781501328558; 9781501328541; 9781501328534
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    Subjects: Folk & traditional music
    Other subjects: Literature; Bob Dylan; Song Lyric Interpretation; Autobiography; Folk; Blues; Rock'n Roll
  24. Leben weben : (Auto-)Biographische Praktiken russischer Autorinnen und Autoren im Internet
    Author: Howanitz, Gernot
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Das Internet als das Medium der Selbstdarstellung schlechthin wird auch von russischen Autorinnen und Autoren gerne genutzt. Sie übernehmen Bilder der Schriftstellerin bzw. des Schriftstellers aus der russischen Literaturtradition, passen sie auf die... more

     

    Das Internet als das Medium der Selbstdarstellung schlechthin wird auch von russischen Autorinnen und Autoren gerne genutzt. Sie übernehmen Bilder der Schriftstellerin bzw. des Schriftstellers aus der russischen Literaturtradition, passen sie auf die kommunikativen Gegebenheiten des Web an und erschaffen sie in medialen Experimenten neu. Doch wie lassen sich die unter der Oberfläche des Web 2.0 operierenden kreativen Mechanismen identifizieren und im Kontext der Literaturtheorie verorten? Gernot Howanitz verschränkt in seinem Buch qualitative und quantitative Verfahren im Sinne der Digital Humanities, um den (auto-)biographischen Praktiken im russischsprachigen Internet (Runet) nachzuspüren. Die dem Buch zugrundeliegende Dissertation wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Gustav-Figdor-Preis für Literaturwissenschaften, verliehen durch die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2018), dem Dissertationspreis der Universität Passau (2018) sowie dem DARIAH-DE Digital Humanities Award (2018).

     
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  25. The Autofictional : Approaches, Affordances, Forms
    Contributor: Effe, Alexandra (Publisher); Lawlor, Hannie (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    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... more

     

    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 theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.

     
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