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Smith, Sidonie; Watson, Julia

 
9780816669868: Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
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ISBN 10: 0816669864 ISBN 13: 9780816669868
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2010

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With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts.
 
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of Reading Autobiography is the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the components of autobiographical acts, including memory, experience, identity, embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson explore these components, review the history of life writing and the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of innovative forms of life writing, such as autographics and installation self-portraiture, charts recent shifts in autobiographical practice. Especially useful for courses are the appendices: a glossary covering dozens of distinct genres of life writing, proposals for group and classroom projects, and an extensive bibliography.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women&;s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Julia Watson is professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University.



Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Julia Watson is professor of comparative studies at Ohio State University.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816669864
ISBN 13 
9780816669868
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
2
Numero di pagine
394
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780816628834: Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives

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ISBN 10:  0816628831 ISBN 13:  9780816628834
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2002
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