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050 4 _aCT25 .E873 1992
082 0 _a809.93592
100 1 _aKadar, Marlene.
245 1 0 _aEssays on Life Writing :
_bFrom Genre to Critical Practice.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c1992.
264 4 _c©1992.
300 _a1 online resource (244 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aTheory / Culture Series
505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aMarlene Kadar has brought together an interdisciplinary and comparative collection of critical and theoretical essays by diverse Canadian scholars.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAutobiography-Women authors.
650 0 _aAutobiographical fiction-History and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen-Biography-History and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature, Modern-History and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen and literature.
650 0 _aSelf in literature.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKadar, Marlene
_tEssays on Life Writing
_dToronto : University of Toronto Press,c1992
_z9780802067838
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aTheory / Culture Series
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