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Showing 1 to 20 of 416 for “"autobiography"”.
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Autobiography
<p>This manuscript explores the experience of growing up from those first tenuous moments of childhood when people learn that fear is bigger than dark spaces, to the acceptance of self as people begin to age. This manuscript is comprised of observational poetry in which the poet discusses topics …
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Autobiography: theory and practice
… limitations to first person autonomy that set autobiography apart from other entirely fictional genres, even in work that is not a record of public life and service. Perceptions of personal identity and experience, within an extended time frame, are highly subjective, and yet remain contingent …
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Feminine fictions: An embodied autobiography : navigating feminine embodied ontologies with/in aesthetic autobiography
… a&b, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1999,2000) through autobiography (Miller 1991, Benstock 1988, Brodzki & Schenk 1988) to inquire into my own embodied, engaged subjective experiences. I work from that position to cross and re-cross ontological thresholds, and through that continual movement, to …
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Harbor: The Act of Autobiography
This written thesis accompanies a sixteen-minute documentary video, Harbor, in which the filmmaker explores her relationship with her father who has suffered a stroke. Detailed accounts of the pre-production, production and post-production of the video allow the reader to understand the challenging …
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Autobiography: "Index to the norm"
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
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Henry Adams: An Education in Autobiography
… down Henry Adams’s starting sentence in his autobiography word by word, piece by piece – pondering its meanings and permutations in the context of subsequent chapters of this iconic memoir. The essay will then consider whether Adams’s <em>Education</em> should still be regarded as a classic …
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Autobiography as Inner History: A Victorian Genre
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0002073.pdf: 18487594 bytes, checksum: 07011a431c428ad017f52832b3a5db22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1950
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Open diary : biography/autobiography as historical context
Alberto Savinio in his travelogue and wartime diary "The departure of the Argonaut" (1918) graphically expressed reservations about his endeavour. "I write - that is, I lay out little black cadavres on the immaculate shroud of the page - but this doesn't begin to capture the magnificent innocence …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… David L. Moore Abstract “William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity” In 1829, Apess published his first book A Son of the Forest, a conversion narrative documenting his life. Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister in the early nineteenth century, has recently come to the …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… David L. Moore Abstract “William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity” In 1829, Apess published his first book A Son of the Forest, a conversion narrative documenting his life. Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister in the early nineteenth century, has recently come to the …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
… Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is about fictionality and the role that processes of fiction play in our experiences of personal subjectivity. I argue that the particular and historically situated form of the Victorian fictional autobiography helps us to perceive the …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
<p>The Communal “I” in American autobiography emerges as an aesthetic response to the pressure of using “the master’s tools” to write from a community on the margins to disclose identity in the conflicts of exclusion and belonging. In this case “the master’s tools” to refer to several distinct …
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“The Stories That We Tell”: Mormon Women, Autobiography, and the Mormon Collective Memory of Persecution as Influenced by The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
… as formulated by Parley P. Pratt in his autobiography impacted the Mormon community for generations. With the help of theorists Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assman, and others to explain collective memory and how it is transmitted, this dissertation examines the life cycle of a collective …
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