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On Life-Writing
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- Binding
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780198704065
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- On Life-Writing
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.7 in
- Subject
- General
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 19 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198704062
ISBN-13
9780198704065
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215893846
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
On Life-Writing
Language
English
Subject
General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
5.8 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2015-938206
Reviews
"The quality of the essays ... are impressively rich." --Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal"The 'sampling' offered in On Life- Writing makes a nuanced and welcome ... contribution to life-writing studies." --Richard Freadman, Australian Book Review, "The quality of the essays ... are impressively rich, notably those of James Shapiro on Shakespeare, Hermione Lee on the meetings of famous writers, and Galen Strawson on whether lives may be said ever to have a coherent story or narrative. (He suggests there is no carpet in which to find a figure, leaving all of us in the condition of shag rugs.) Other essays in the book are covered with that magical dust only academic writers possess, which allows them to render unreadable even the most splendid of subjects." --Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal "Leader astutely leaves the most radical essay until last: in 'The Unstoried Life', analytic philosopher, Galen Strawson restates his objection to the view of 'narrativists' (as he terms them) that all human life is life-writing, and that life-writing is not only a necessary task for any self-respecting human being, but also, at least in the best case, an exercise of autonomy - self-determination'. His engagingly tendentious piece makes the case for 'non-narratives' - people like him - who do not fundamentally experience life or the self as narrative unities, whether (ostensibly) scripted from without or within. Still, the 'sampling' offered in On Life- Writing makes a nuanced and welcome ... contribution to life-writing studies." --Richard Freadman, Australian Book Review, "...[A] timely examination of the past, present and future of storied lives.... The contributors to On Life-Writing--many of whom are practitioners themselves--theorize throughout about the authority, authenticity and objectivity of their craft, as well as the relations between life-writing and history, psychoanalysis and philosophy." --Frances Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement, "The quality of the essays ... are impressively rich." --Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal "The 'sampling' offered in On Life- Writing makes a nuanced and welcome ... contribution to life-writing studies." --Richard Freadman, Australian Book Review
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
808.06/692
Table Of Content
Introduction1. Unravelling Shakespeare's Life2. A Boy from Stratford: Shakespearean Biography And Romantic Nationalism3. Romantic Biography: Conveying a Sense of Presence, Immediacy and Authenticity4. Prosopography and Crowded Attention in Old and New Media5. Writing Real People6. Rosamund and Ravelstein: The Discandying of a Creator's Confection7. 'From Memory': Literary Encounters and Life-Writing8. Medieval Life-Writing and the Strange Case of Margery Kempe Of Lynn (c.1373-c.1440)9. The Materiality of Early Modern Life-Writing: The Case of Richard Stonley10. The Autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin11. The Worst Thing I Ever Did: The Contemporary Confessional Memoir12. The Rights to a Life13. Human 2.0? Life-Writing In the Digital Age14. Psychoanalysis and Autobiography15. The Unstoried Life
Synopsis
'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing readers to something of the range of forms the term encompasses, their changing fortunes and features, the notions of 'life, ' 'self' and 'story' which help to explain these changing fortunes and features, recent attempts to group forms, the permeability of the boundaries between forms, the moral problems raised by life-writing in all forms, but particularly in fictional forms, and the relations between life-writing and history, life-writing and psychoanalysis, life-writing and philosophy. The essays mostly focus on individual instances rather than fields, whether historical, theoretical or generic. Generalizations are grounded in particulars. For example, the role of the 'life-changing encounter, ' a frequent trope in literary life-writing, is pondered by Hermione Lee through an account of a much-storied first meeting between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova; James Shapiro examines the history of the 'cradle to grave' life-narrative, as well as the potential distortions it breeds, by focusing on Shakespeare biography, in particular attempts to explain Shakespeare's so-called 'lost years'., Chapter 12 of this publication is open access, available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence, offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing readers to something of the range of forms the term encompasses, their changing fortunes and features, the notions of 'life,' 'self' and 'story' which help to explain these changing fortunes and features, recent attempts to group forms, the permeability of the boundaries between forms, the moral problems raised by life-writing in all forms, but particularly in fictional forms, and the relations between life-writing and history, life-writing and psychoanalysis, life-writing and philosophy. The essays mostly focus on individual instances rather than fields, whether historical, theoretical or generic. Generalizations are grounded in particulars. For example, the role of the 'life-changing encounter,' a frequent trope in literary life-writing, is pondered by Hermione Lee through an account of a much-storied first meeting between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova; James Shapiro examines the history of the 'cradle to grave' life-narrative, as well as the potential distortions it breeds, by focusing on Shakespeare biography, in particular attempts to explain Shakespeare's so-called 'lost years'., On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing. The collection brings together eminent scholars and writers to reflect on specific examples of life-writing to reflect broader themes within the genre., Chapter 12 of this publication is open access, available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence, offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. "Life-writing" is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing readers to something of the range of forms the term encompasses, their changing fortunes and features, the notions of "life," "self" and "story" which help to explain these changing fortunes and features, recent attempts to group forms, the permeability of the boundaries between forms, the moral problems raised by life-writing in all forms, but particularly in fictional forms, and the relations between life-writing and history, life-writing and psychoanalysis, life-writing and philosophy. The essays mostly focus on individual instances rather than fields, whether historical, theoretical or generic. Generalizations are grounded in particulars. For example, the role of the "life-changing encounter," a frequent trope in literary life-writing, is pondered by Hermione Lee through an account of a much-storied first meeting between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova; James Shapiro examines the history of the "cradle to grave" life-narrative, as well as the potential distortions it breeds, by focusing on Shakespeare biography, in particular attempts to explain Shakespeare's so-called "lost years".
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