Writing Lives
Title | Writing Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Edel |
Publisher | W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780393303827 |
This Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's summary of his lifework includes a study of the biographical art, which deals with problems of life-myth, archives, narrative forms, questions of transference, and fears of "psychologizing" in writing modern biographies
Writing Lives
Title | Writing Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Midge Gillies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2009-06-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 052173231X |
In addition to exploring the key characteristics of life writing, this book examines the relationship between the lives of authors and the influence of these lives both on their own writing and on the reception of their work by contemporary and later readers.
Process
Title | Process PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Stodola |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781477801086 |
Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process. Unlike how-to books that preach writing techniques or rules, Process puts the true methods of writers on display in their most captivating incarnation: within the context of the lives from which they sprang. Drawn from both existing material and original research and interviews, Stodola brings to light the fascinating, unique, and illuminating techniques behind these literary behemoths.
My Last Eight Thousand Days
Title | My Last Eight Thousand Days PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Gutkind |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820358061 |
As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach. In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.
Evocative Autoethnography
Title | Evocative Autoethnography PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Bochner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134815948 |
This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and workshop handouts. The book: describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling; provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a writing life; examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities; illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography; calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and lives of evocative autoethnographers.
Writing Lives Together
Title | Writing Lives Together PDF eBook |
Author | Felicity James |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2017-09-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351393073 |
A diary entry, begun by a wife and finished by a husband; a map of London, its streets bearing the names of forgotten lives; biographies of siblings, and of spouses; a poem which gives life to long-dead voices from the archives. All these feature in this volume as examples of ‘writing lives together’: British life writing which has been collaboratively authored and/or joins together the lives of multiple subjects. The contributions to this book range over published and unpublished material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories. The book closes with essays by contemporary, practising biographers, Daisy Hay and Laurel Brake, who explain their decisions to move away from the single subject in writing the lives of figures from the Romantic and Victorian periods. We conclude with the reflections and work of a contemporary poet, Kathleen Bell, writing on James Watt (1736–1819) and his family, in a ghostly collaboration with the archives. Taken as a whole, the collection offers distinctive new readings of collaboration in theory and practice, reflecting on the many ways in which lives might be written together: across gender boundaries, across time, across genre. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Writing Women's Lives
Title | Writing Women's Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Neunzig Cahill |
Publisher | Perennial |
Pages | 509 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | American prose literature |
ISBN | 9780060969981 |
Gathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors