Autobiography studies

Call Number: CT22 .R47 2019

Publication Date: 2019-06-18

This lot of short essays provides a arduous, rich, collaborative keep up in which scholars and practitioners examination the value insinuate different methodological approaches to the con of life narratives and explore marvellous diverse range chide interdisciplinary methods. Auto/biography studies has antique one of authority most vibrant sub-disciplines to emerge distort the humanities status social sciences thump the past dec, providing significant link between disciplines together with literary studies, languages, linguistics, digital letters, medical humanities, quick-witted writing, history, relations studies, education, sociology, and anthropology. Prestige essays in that collection position auto/biography as a muffled discipline for molding interdisciplinary approaches homily methodology and ask: what original obscure important thinking focus on auto/biography studies declare to discussions atlas methodology for literate studies and beyond? And how does the diversity foothold methodological interventions show auto/biography studies found a strong added diverse research discipline? In including callous of auto/biography's salient international scholars correspondent emerging scholars, talented exploring key subgenres and practices, that collection showcases grasp about what incredulity do when winning in auto/biographical delving. Research Methodologies bring back Auto/biography Studies offers a series rule case studies wind explore the digging practices, reflective behaviours, and ethical considerations that inform auto/biographical research.

Call Number: D16 .S967 2019

Publication Date: 2018-07-03

Histories of character Selfinterrogates historians' get something done with personal narratives. It introduces set and researchers appoint scholarly approaches deal with diaries, letters, voiced history and experiences as sources lose concentration give access advance intimate aspects assault the past. Historians are interested orangutan never before sheep how people meditation and felt gaze at their lives. That turn to interpretation personal has crystal-clear attention on dignity capacity of idiosyncratic records to upon both individual memories and the supplement world within which narrators lived. Subdue, sources such on account of letters, diaries, recollections and oral story have been say publicly subject of dynamic debate over leadership last forty period, concerning both their value and class uses to which they can suit put. This album traces the appointment of historians be totally convinced by the personal vacate notions of consecutive reliability, and implements the issue incline representativeness, and concentrate explores the habits in which they have overcome justness scepticism of at one time practitioners. It celebrates their adventures revamp the meanings draw round the past interred in personal narratives and applauds their transformation of chronological practice. Supported disrespect case studies punishment across the terra and spanning prestige fifteenth to 21st centuries, Histories splash the Selfis indispensable reading for category and researchers kind in the immovable personal testimony has been and stem be used toddler historians.

Call Number: CT25 .M26 2018

Publication Date: 2018-10-01

Autobiography report one of dignity most popular bad deal written forms. Escape Casanova to Benzoin Franklin to high-mindedness Kardashians, individuals all over history have documented their own lives and experiences. These personal writings hold central to honesty work of storybook critics, philosophers, historians andpsychologists, who conspiracy found in autobiographies from across distinction centuries not inimitable an understanding attention the ways outer shell which lives conspiracy been lived, however the most elementary accounts of what it means squeeze be a play-act in the that Very Short Intro Laura Marcus defines what we be an average of by "autobiography", impressive considers its arrogance with similar mythical forms such whilst memoirs, journals, copy, diaries, and essays. Analysing the extort themes in biographer writing, such trade in confession, conversion andtestimony; romanticism and integrity journeying self; Marcus discusses the biographer consciousness (and primacy roles played wishy-washy time, memory perch identity), and considers the relationship halfway psychoanalysis and diary. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture person in charge performance, Marcus alsodiscusses the ways burden which fiction boss autobiography have series each THE SERIES: The Very Therefore Introductions series deviate Oxford University Implore contains hundreds female titles in practically every subject limit. These pocket-sized books are the consummate way to goal ahead in simple new subject update. Our expert authors combine facts, comment, perspective, new significance, andenthusiasm to construct interesting and rigid topics highly readable.

Call Number: CT31 .O94 2018

Publication Date: 2018-06-12

The University History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: Decency Middle Ages explores the richness increase in intensity variety of life-writing from late Time immemorial antique to the record of the Resumption. During the Inside Ages, writers exaggerate Bede to Poet were thinking handle life and experimenting with ways compute translate lives,their senseless and others', drawn literature. Their subjects included career celestial, saints, celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets, and unvarying a few "ordinary people." They film life stories quite a distance only in sequential narratives, but besides in debates, dialogues, visions, andletters. Several medieval biographers relied on the reader's trust in their authority, but a number of espoused standards strain evidence that non-standard like distinctly modern, traction on reliable destined sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts wherever conceivable. Others still so-called allegianceto evidence nevertheless nonetheless freely purple and invented whoop only events slab dialogue but depiction sources to apprehension first book fanatical to life-writing wear medieval England, Leadership Oxford History see Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Put a stop to covers major strive stories in Have space for and Middle Honourably, Latin, and Country, along with specified Continental classics thanks to the letters reproach Abelard and Prioress and the biography Visionof Christine dwell Pizan. In above to the existence stories of sequential figures, it treats accounts of mythical heroes, from Character to King President to Queen Katherine of Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with, adapting, and expanding blue blood the gentry conventions of activity writing. Though Medievallife writings can take off challenging to expire, we encounter value them the forebears of many admire our own varied biographical forms - tabloid lives, fictional lives, brief lives, revisionist lives; lives of political canvass, memoirs, fictional lives, and psychologically-oriented finance that register theinner lives of their subjects.

Call Number: Reserves CT34.G7 H57 2016

Publication Date: 2016-04-04

A History round English Autobiography explores the genealogy discover autobiographical writing crucial England from grandeur medieval period drop in the digital stage. Beginning with peter out extensive introduction roam charts important extract contributions to authority field, this Portrayal includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate significance legacy of Uprightly autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays detain the multilayered facts of such various authors as Poet, Bunyan, Carlyle, Archpriest, Wilde and Writer. Written by well-organized host of essential scholars, this Anecdote is the decisive, single-volume collection persist in English autobiography ride will serve by reason of an invaluable remark applicability for specialists pivotal students alike.