When Memory Speaks Exploring the Art of Autobiography

Name: When Memory Speaks Exploring the Art of Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780679766452

ISBN-10: 0679766456

ISBN-13: 9780679766452

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Authors: Jill Ker Conway

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J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.91" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English