Essays on Life Writing : From Genre to Critical Practice.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice -- PART ONE: Literary Women Who Write the Self: Autobiographical Documents by Literary Women as Primary Texts -- 1 'Life out of Art': Elizabeth Smart's Early Journals -- 2 Between the Lines: Marian Engel's Cahiers and Notebooks -- 3 Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada as Epistolary Dijournal -- 4 Writing as a Daughter: Autobiography in Wollstonecraft's Travelogue -- PART TWO: Recording a Life and the Construction of Self: Non-Literary Life Narratives as Life Writing - Personal Oral Narratives, Life Histories, and Testimonials -- 5 Court Testimony from the Past: Self and Culture in the Making of Text -- 6 Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon -- 7 Anthropological Lives: The Reflexive Tradition in a Social Science -- PART THREE: Fiction and Autofiction as Life Writing: Reading as Emancipating the Subject -- 8 'I Peel Myself out of My Own Skin': Reading Don't: A Woman's Word -- 9 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative -- 10 Reading Reflections: The Autobiographical Illusion in Cat's Eye -- 11 Dreaming a True Story: The Disenchantment of the Hero in Don Quixote, Part 2 -- PART FOUR: Poetics and Life Writing -- 12 Mimesis: The Dramatic Lineage of Auto/Biography -- 13 Autobiography: From Different Poetics to a Poetics of Differences -- Biographical Notes.

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

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