Elements of Autobiography and Life Narratives

Name: Elements of Autobiography and Life Narratives
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ISBN: 9780321105622

ISBN-10: 0321105621

ISBN-13: 9780321105622

Edition: 2005

Authors: Catherine L. Hobbs

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Elements of the Autobiography and Life Narrativeshelps readers think about how their lives—as well as the texts that they write about them—are socially constructed. It presents the autobiography as a means of self-expression, personal and social growth, and development of insight, and shows how writing an autobiography occurs within social and cultural contexts and constraints. A unique chapter (Ch.4) on the media shows how Web sites, web logs, and blogging can be used in developing an autobiography, in understanding autobiography as a genre, and in demonstrating the connection of the autobiography to history and culture. Journaling is a central feature of the book, both as an end in itself…

Book details

List price: $55.40
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface to the Teacher


Preface to the Student


Acknowledgments



Autobiography and Its Elements


Language, Culture, Identity


Mind and Inner Speech


Meditation


Journaling


Memory


New models


I remember...."Coffee


"Writing with Others


Beginnings


I was born....Five Chapters of Your Life


Revising Autobiography and Memoir



The Autobiographical "I."


The Genre of Autobiography


History of the Word "Autobiography


"History of the Genre of Autobiography


Autobiography and Truth


Forms of Truth


Memory and Memoir, Fiction an