Télécharger le livre :  William Hayley
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This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley’s contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context. In his biographies of Milton,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Mix Tape Memories
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This book ‘plays up’ stories of mostly unknown figures and their journeys through a life affected by movement, and a search for home. It engages with individuals and groups whose passions have carried the subjects through ‘uncharted’ or unhomely territories, here told...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-09-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-08-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
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This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-12-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Photographer as Autobiographer
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This book explores hybrid memoirs, combining text and images, authored by photographers. It contextualizes this sub-category of life writing from a historical perspective within the overall context of life writing, before taking a structural and cognitive approach to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-10
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Text and Image in Women's Life Writing
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This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Autofictional
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-03
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene
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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives
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This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  After Ancient Biography
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Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  New Forms of Self-Narration
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This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism. It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Metabiography
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This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical
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This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe
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This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Autofiction in English
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This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Memories from the Frontline
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This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany.   It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Girls, Autobiography, Media
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This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.In thinking...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Food and Masculinity in Contemporary Autobiographies
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This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical overview of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women
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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers
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This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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