Search Results - "Memoir"

Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts : Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

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Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts : Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

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Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / by Krauel, Javier, 1972-

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Imperial Emotions : Cultural Responses to Myths of Empire in Fin-de-Siècle Spain / by Krauel, Javier, 1972-

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

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Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Third-Generation Holocaust Representation : Trauma, History, and Memory / by Aarons, Victoria, Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…On the periphery : the "tangled roots" of Holocaust remembrance for the third generation -- The intergenerational transmission of memory and trauma : from survivor writing to post-Holocaust representation -- Third-generation memoirs : metonymy and representation in Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost -- Trauma and tradition : changing classical paradigms in third-generation novelists -- Nicole Krauss : inheriting the burden of Holocaust trauma -- Refugee writers and Holocaust trauma -- "There were times when it was possible to weigh suffering" : Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge and the extended trauma of the Holocaust.…”
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Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta /…”
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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Navigating the spiritual cycle in Memoirs of a survivor and Shikasta /…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.…”
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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? : "Le Coeur du pitre"; Survival of the Object in "Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur ...?" …”
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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? : "Le Coeur du pitre"; Survival of the Object in "Qu'est-ce pour nous, mon coeur ...?" …”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche -- New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier -- Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh -- Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins -- The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker -- Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte -- Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson -- Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan -- Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- What's it like being Irish?…”
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Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices /

Table of Contents: “…Representations of Irish political leaders in the 'Haughey' plays of Carr, Barry and Breen / Anthony Roche -- New articulations of Irishness and otherness on the contemporary Irish stage / Martine Pelletier -- Scattered and diverse: Irish poetry since 1990 / Jerzy Jarniewicz and John McDonagh -- Architectural metaphors: representations of the house in the poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke / Lucy Collins -- The places I go back to: familiarisation and estrangement in Seamus Heaney's later poetry / Joanna Cowper-- Neither here nor there: new generation Northern Irish poets (Sinead Morrissey and Nick Laird) / Michael Parker -- Tomorrow we will change our names, invent ourselves again: Irish fiction and autobiography since 1990 / Liam Harte -- Anne Enright and postnationalism in the contemporary Irish novel / Heidi Hansson -- Sacred spaces: writing home in recent Irish memoirs and autobiographies (John McGahern's Memoir, Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People, Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark, John Walsh's The Falling Angels) / Stephen Regan -- Secret gardens: unearthing the truth in Patrick O'Keeffe's The Hill Road / Vivian Valvano Lynch -- What's it like being Irish?…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

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