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Reading Autobiography A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0816669864

ISBN-13: 9780816669868

Edition: 2nd 2010 (Guide (Instructor's))

Authors: Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson

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With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study.Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and visual and performing arts.Thoroughly updated, the second edition ofReading Autobiographyis the most complete assessment of life narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated, theoretical approach to life writing and the…    
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Book details

List price: $22.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 7/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Sidonie Smith is Professor of English, University Michigan.

Julia Watson is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Life Narrative: Definitions and Distinctions
Autobiographical Subjects
Autobiographical Acts
Life Narrative in Historical Perspective
In the Wake of the Memoir Boom
The Visual-Verbal-Virtual Contexts of Life Narrative
A History of Autobiography Criticism, Part I: Theorizing Autobiography
A History of Autobiography Criticism, Part II: Expanding Autobiography Studies
A Tool Kit: Twenty-four Strategies for Reading Life Narratives
Sixty Genres of Life Narrative
Group and Classroom Projects
Journals and Internet Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index