Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 138 for “"Autobiographies"”.
-
Comedian autobiographies - an examination of the publishing phenomenon
… United Kingdom, but they have also all written autobiographies, with the majority becoming bestsellers. Comedian autobiographies are a contemporary publishing phenomenon that has become increasingly popular in the past 20 years, but they are without any academic study so far. This PhD thesis …
-
Becoming Catholic: Story, Sacrament, Conversion and the Emergence of Faith in Postconciliar Autobiographies
This thesis looks at the spiritual autobiographies of thirty contemporary young adult Catholic men and women in their early twenties through their early forties. It argues that their life writings, when taken together as a whole and read through the dual lens of Story and Sacrament, evidence an …
-
An Annotated Bibliography of Black Women Biographies and Autobiographies for Secondary School Students
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
-
Exploring Secondary Teachers' Digital Curricular Autobiographies As A Path Towards Digital Equity: A Currere Journey
<p>Combining a narrative approach with portraiture and theoretically framed by reconceptualism and critical digital pedagogy, this study explores participants’ beliefs about and experiences using information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning. It also explores participants’ …
-
Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
An introduction discusses the characteristics of pseudo-autobiography and the techniques developed by these authors to battle society's dominant ideologies and discusses the dramatic changes both in Spanish society and in the authors themselves, which contributed to the rise of the new historical …
-
The Vernacularisation of Modern Neurosciences: A Case Study of Neuro-Autobiographies in The Age of Complexity
… conditions which are coined here as neuro-autobiographies. The interaction between the neuroscientific knowledge and the autobiographers lived experience with a brain condition contributes to a complex process of life-writing and rhetorical expressions, which creates an ecological relation …
-
Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to explore conceptions of health, plebeian aetiology, the subjective experience of sickness, lay medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. The relationship between the poor and the medical establishment forms an underlying theme …
-
Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mots and the Nouvelles autobiographies of Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras: a comparison
… further supported by a comparison of it to the autobiographies of a selection of Nouveaux Romanciers: Alain Robbe-Grillet's Le Miroir qui revient (1984), Nathalie Sarraute's L'Enfance (1983), and Marguerite Duras's L'Amant (1984). The autobiographies of the Nouveaux Romanciers are used as …
-
The Diary of a Vanishing Indian: Arnold Spirit's Assimilation in Sherman Alexie's YA Novel the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
… of the current ongoing debates regarding Indian autobiographies and their relevance to Sherman Alexie’s Young Adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The introduction and subsequent chapters provide a background on Indian autobiographies and present a critical reading of …
-
Herstory, subjectivity and the public sphere in female narratives of the liberation struggle in Namibia: The case of Ndeshi Namhila, Lydia Shaketange, Libertine Amathila and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu
… research design, whereby four Namibian female autobiographies were critiqued. The selected autobiographies were; The Price of Freedom by Namhila (1997), Walking the Boeing 707 by Shaketange (2009), Making a Difference by Amathila (2010) and Taming my Elephant by Amulungu (2016). The purposive …
-
"My Journey Out Of...": How Women Narrate Their Religious Departures
… leaving religion. In an effort to learn about autobiographies written by nonreligious women, I utilize storytelling as a theoretical framework, located within the rhetorical uses of personal narratives, and ask: What are the types of challenges, experiences, and topics that nonreligious women …
-
The rhetoric of autobiography : analysis of autobiographical writings of militant civil-rights leaders.
… of emulation, examples for readers to admire. Autobiographies are written to justify actions, beliefs, religions, and entire lives. Through narratives authors relate their conception of personal and social history. In order to study the rhetorical nature of the autobiographies of militant black …
-
The Poetics of Conversion: Salvation and Self-Justification in the Modern Autobiographical Novel
… fact that conversions are prevalent in secular autobiographies and may well be an integral part of the structure and goals of the genre itself. The evidence that many modern secular autobiographies follow a similar pattern of loss and compensatory gain found in earlier religious confessions …
-
Histories of the British people, in their own words, 1945-85
This study explores the autobiographies of ordinary Britons, written in the middle and later decades of the twentieth century. It draws on a little fewer than 300 of these under-studied documents, reading them for their authors’ preoccupations as they sat, writing. Together the autobiographies …
-
Outside and Inside: Representations of Interracialism and American Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
… identity, and gender formation in fifteen autobiographies published by white male American jazz musicians— that is, jazz autobiographies written by male subjects who self-identified, and were identified by their collaborators and by the general public, as white—between 1939 and 2001. A …
-
The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
… and the contradictory pressures on these autobiographies to both elevate and protect the communities in question from further marginalization. In addition, the work examines how three writers from these communities (Frederick Douglass, Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Anzaldúa) have been …
-
Humanlife and the Advent of Philosophy: A Theory of Philosophical Autobiography
… and Nietzsche. I argue that philosophers write autobiographies in order to present and give an account of philosophical first principles. I also argue that Plato invented philosophical autobiography.
-
Navigating the cultural gaps: Whiteness and diversity in two elementary school classrooms
… with the opportunity to examine their own autobiographies and the impact of those autobiographies on their teaching. The implications of this study include: 1) the relevance of teachers' life experiences to their teaching practice, 2) the importance of understanding the social context in …
-
Reshaping Nationalist Discourse: Irish Novelists of the Young Free State
… of Irishness. Drawing on popular peasant autobiographies and Revival literature, the novel, masquerading as autobiography, produces a metadiscourse about Irish identity that shatters the myth of authenticity at the heart of nationalism.
Page 1 of 7