Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition
Sidonie Smith, "Reading Autobiography Now: An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition"
English | ISBN: 1517916887 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 595 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1517916887 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 595 KB + 2 MB
A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative
The boom in autobiographical narratives continues apace. It now encompasses a global spectrum of texts and practices in such media as graphic memoir, auto-photography, performance and plastic arts, film and video, and online platforms. Reading Autobiography Now offers both a critical engagement with life narrative in historical perspective and a theoretical framework for interpreting texts and practices in this wide-ranging field. Hailed upon its initial publication as “the Whole Earth Catalog of autobiography studies,” this essential book has been updated, reorganized, and expanded in scope to serve as an accessible and contemporary guide for scholars, students, and practitioners.
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