Essays on Life Writing: From Genre to Critical Practice

Published by University of Toronto Press 1992

Essays on Life Writing

From Genre to Critical Practice

Edited by: Marlene Kadar

In the series Theory / Culture

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442674615

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About this book

Marlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.

Author / Editor information

Kadar Marlene :

Marlene Kadar is Canada Research Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division and at the Robarts Centre of Canadian Studies, York University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice Marlene Kadar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Literary Women Who Write the Self
Introduction to Part One Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
1. 'Life out of Art': Elizabeth Smart's Early Journals Alice Van Wart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Between the Lines: Marian Engel's Cahiers and Notebooks Christl Verduyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada as Epistolary Dijournal Helen M. Buss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. Writing as a Daughter: Autobiography in Wollstonecraft's Travelogue Eleanor Ty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
PART TWO. Recording a Life and the Construction of Self
Introduction to Part Two Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Court Testimony from the Past: Self and Culture in the Making of Text Elizabeth S. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6. Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon Thomas V. Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
7. Anthropological Lives: The Reflexive Tradition in a Social Science Sally Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
PART THREE. Fiction and Autofiction as Life Writing
Introduction to Part Three Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
8. 'I Peel Myself out of My Own Skin': Reading Don't; A Woman's Word Janice Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative Marlene Kadar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
10. Reading Reflections: The Autobiographical Illusion in Cat's Eye Nathalie Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
11. Dreaming a True Story: The Disenchantment of the Hero in Don Quixote, Part 2 Ellen M. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
PART FOUR. Poetics and Life Writing
Introduction to Part Four Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
12. Mimesis: The Dramatic Lineage of Auto/Biography Evelyn J. Hinz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
13. Autobiography: From Different Poetics to a Poetics of Differences Shirley Neuman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 234
Keywords: DISCOUNT-C

eBook

Published: May 15, 1992
ISBN: 9781442674615