Table of Contents: “…The Bodies of Contemporary Autobiographical Practice -- VIII. Autobiographical Manifestos.…”

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Table of Contents: “…"Pondering all these things in her heart" : aspects of secrecy in the autobiographical writings of seventeenth-century Englishwomen /…”

Table of Contents: “…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 -- Appendix A. …”

Table of Contents: “…I: Autobiography: theory of the genre and analysis of discourse -- The autobiographical pact -- Autobiography in the third person -- The ironic narrative of childhood: Vallès -- The order of narrative in Sartre's Les Mots -- Looking at a self-portrait -- The autobiographical pact (bis) -- pt. …”

Table of Contents: “…Varieties of autobiography and of autobiographical material -- The first seven years -- Growing up -- Adventure -- Poor folk -- business men -- Poetry as autobiography -- Artists -- Religious -- Professional -- The wrong turning -- Country life -- The 'ghostly wine' -- Students.…”

Table of Contents: “…1: Autobiography and the Catholic woman -- 2: Puzzling cheerfulness and puzzling complaints -- The conundrum of a too pleasant surface -- Unexpected frustration and grief -- 3: Theologies of women -- The message of subordination -- The message of equivalence -- 4: Spiritual combat -- Catholic girls in defense of their spiritual well-being -- Catholic women autobiographers keep up the good fight.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Seacole -- "The traveling Ulysses scene": Claude McKay's A long way from home and My green hills of Jamaica -- Blurred genres, blended voices: George Lamming's In the castle of my skin -- Autobiographical frameworks and linked discourses: George Lamming's The pleasures of exile and C.L.R. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- A story depends upon how you slice it -- The nine essential elements of story structure -- Genres of the self -- Tricks memory plays on you and tricks you can play on it -- Finding your voice -- Portraying yourself: you are your hero -- Portraying others: casting your story from life -- Truth in autobiographic writing -- How to write what you dare not say -- Dealing with your dark side -- Writing the body -- Theme: string for your pearls -- Scenepearls -- Anatomy of a scene: description, inner responses, dialog, and structure -- Jumping and leaping through time -- Humor -- Dressing up before going out -- Emotional, legal, and ethical concerns -- Finishing the unfinished story -- Appendices: Forming or finding a memoir group -- Selling your story for fame and fortune and other good alternatives.…”

Table of Contents: “…Kuhn -- "Double singleness": gender role mergence in the autobiographical writings of Charles and Mary Lamb / Jane Aaron -- A woman in the "man's world": the journals of Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- Biography as autobiography: Adèle Hugo, witness of her husband's life / Marilyn Yalom -- Biography as reflected autobiography: the self-creation of Anne Thackeray Ritchie / Carol Hanbery MacKay -- The feminization of John Stuart Mill / Susan Groag Bell -- The literary standard, working-class autobiography, and gender / Regenia Gagnier -- "Yo sola aprendi": Mexican women's personal narratives from nineteenth-century California / Genaro Padilla -- Reconstructing the person: the case of Clara Shortridge Foltz / Barbara Allen Babcock -- Lorine Neidecker: composing a life / Glenna Breslin -- Postmodernism and the biographer / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- The mother tongue of Paul Celan: translation into biography / John Felstiner -- Engendering an autobiography in art: Charlotte Salomon's "Life? …”

Table of Contents: “…Summary of a letter to cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini / Mair. Autobiographical fragment on his conversion ; Preface to the complete edition of A German theology ; Letter to Eobanus Hessus ; To the councilmen of all cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian schools ; Article 32 from his explanations of the 95 Theses; The bondage of the will ; An appeal to the ruling class of German nationality as to the amelioration of the state of Christendom ; Article 25 from Defence and explanation of all the articles of Dr. …”