Reading autobiography : a guide for interpreting life narratives

Reading autobiography : a guide for interpreting life narratives / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.

"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 c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Sidonie
Other Authors: Watson, Julia, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Autobiography.
autobiography (genre)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Autobiography
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Table of Contents:
  • Life narrative : definitions and distinctions
  • Autobiographical subjects
  • Autobiographical acts
  • Life narrative in historical perspective
  • In the wake of the memoir boom
  • The visual-verbal-virtual contexts of life narrative
  • A history of autobiography criticism, part I : theorizing autobiography
  • A history of autobiography criticism, part II : expanding autobiography studies
  • A tool kit : twenty-four strategies for reading life narratives
  • Appendix A. Sixty genres of life narrative
  • Appendix B. Group and classroom projects
  • Appendix C. Journals and internet resources.

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