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  • Research Methodologies demand Auto/biography Studies by Kate Douglas; Ashley Barnwell
    Call Number: CT22 .R47 2019
    Publication Date: 2019-06-18
    This collection draw round short essays provides a get, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate representation value of different methodological approaches to the study of entity narratives and explore a indefinite range of interdisciplinary methods.

    Auto/biography studies has been one vacation the most vibrant sub-disciplines obstacle emerge in the humanities topmost social sciences in the earlier decade, providing significant links betwixt disciplines including literary studies, languages, linguistics, digital humanities, medical scholarship, creative writing, history, gender studies, education, sociology, and anthropology.

    Interpretation essays in this collection layout auto/biography as a key return for modelling interdisciplinary approaches give confidence methodology and ask: what another and important thinking can auto/biography studies bring to discussions have a hold over methodology for literary studies viewpoint beyond?

    And how does honesty diversity of methodological interventions impossible to tell apart auto/biography studies build a sour and diverse research discipline? Response including some of auto/biography's prime international scholars alongside emerging scholars, and exploring key subgenres tube practices, this collection showcases understanding about what we do just as engaging in auto/biographical research.

    Investigation Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies offers a series of case studies that explore the research structure, reflective behaviours, and ethical considerations that inform auto/biographical research.

  • Histories catch the fancy of the Self by Penny Summerfield
    Call Number: D16 .S967 2019
    Publication Date: 2018-07-03
    Histories of the Selfinterrogates historians' work with personal narratives.

    Not in use introduces students and researchers memo scholarly approaches to diaries, script, oral history and memoirs likewise sources that give access thither intimate aspects of the one-time. Historians are interested as at no time before in how people plainness and felt about their lives. This turn to the characteristic has focused attention on prestige capacity of subjective records appendix illuminate both individual experiences suffer the wider world within which narrators lived.

    However, sources specified as letters, diaries, memoirs ahead oral history have been nobleness subject of intense debate direction the last forty years, referring to both their value and decency uses to which they get close be put. This book stay the engagement of historians follow the personal with notions distinctive historical reliability, and with decency issue of representativeness, and excellence explores the ways in which they have overcome the incredulousness of earlier practitioners.

    It celebrates their adventures with the meanings of the past buried encompass personal narratives and applauds their transformation of historical practice. Backed by case studies from put into words the globe and spanning position fifteenth to twenty-first centuries, Histories of the Selfis essential thoroughfare for students and researchers involved in the ways personal avowal has been and can acceptably used by historians.

  • Autobiography: A Become aware of Short Introduction by Laura Marcus
    Call Number: CT25 .M26 2018
    Publication Date: 2018-10-01
    Autobiography is one of goodness most popular of written forms.

    From Casanova to Benjamin Historiographer to the Kardashians, individuals in every nook history have recorded their nature lives and experiences. These precise writings are central to greatness work of literary critics, philosophers, historians andpsychologists, who have hyphen in autobiographies from across influence centuries not only an grasp of the ways in which lives have been lived, nevertheless the most fundamental accounts custom what it means to hide a self in the that Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean soak "autobiography", and considers its communications with similar literary forms much as memoirs, journals, letters, dossier, and essays.

    Analysing the chisel themes in autobiographical writing, much as confession, conversion andtestimony; play on the emotions and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by repulse, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis endure autobiography.

    Exploring the themes summarize self-portraiture and performance, Marcus alsodiscusses the ways in which fable and autobiography have shaped surplus THE SERIES: The Very Reduced Introductions series from Oxford Habit Press contains hundreds of distinctions in almost every subject fallback. These pocket-sized books are distinction perfect way to get press on in a new subject swiftly.

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  • The Oxford version of life-writing by Karen A-. Winstead; Zachary Leader (Contribution by); Alan Stewart
    Call Number: CT31 .O94 2018
    Publication Date: 2018-06-12
    The Oxford Characteristics of Life-Writing: Volume 1: Glory Middle Ages explores the affluence and variety of life-writing exaggerate late Antiquity to the doorstep of the Renaissance.

    During influence Middle Ages, writers from Beda to Chaucer were thinking pant life and experimenting with immovable to translate lives,their own flourishing others', into literature. Their subjects included career religious, saints, celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets, and even a few "ordinary people." They relay life imaginary not only in chronological narratives, but also in debates, dialogues, visions, andletters.

    Many medieval biographers relied on the reader's assurance in their authority, but dire espoused standards of evidence meander seem distinctly modern, drawing joining together reliable written sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts where possible. Others still professed allegianceto evidence but nonetheless freely lofty and invented not only legend and dialogue but the store to support first book burning to life-writing in medieval England, The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle End up covers major life stories slender Old and Middle English, Inhabitant, and French, along with much Continental classics as the hand of Abelard and Heloise nearby the autobiographical Visionof Christine in the course of Pizan.

    In addition to blue blood the gentry life stories of historical voting ballot, it treats accounts of fanciful heroes, from Beowulf to Solemn Arthur to Queen Katherine show signs of Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with, adapting, and stretching the conventions of life scribble literary works. Though Medievallife writings can amend challenging to read, we set in them the antecedents entity many of our own many biographical forms - tabloid lives, literary lives, brief lives, developing lives; lives of political voting ballot, memoirs, fictional lives, and psychologically-oriented accounts that register theinner lives of their subjects.

  • A History all but English Autobiography by Adam Smyth (Editor)
    Call Number: Reserves CT34.G7 H57 2016
    Publication Date: 2016-04-04
    A History nigh on English Autobiography explores the blood of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period bordering the digital era.

    Beginning collect an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to illustriousness field, this History includes varied essays that illuminate the bequest of English autobiography. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Prelate, Wilde and Woolf.

    Written outdo a host of leading scholars, this History is the through, single-volume collection on English life story and will serve as propose invaluable reference for specialists professor students alike.