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The Ethics of Life Writing
Paul John Eakin
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Description for The Ethics of Life Writing
Paperback. Editor(s): Eakin, Paul John. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420. 288 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: CFG; HPQ. Dimension: 228 x 158 x 17. Weight: 420.
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A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are commanding attention in many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology, history, journalism, medicine, and psychology, as...
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801488337
SKU
V9780801488337
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99-1
About Paul John Eakin
Paul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, also from Cornell, The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography. He is the editor...
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What is the nature of the author's obligation to her subject and to her audience? The Ethics of Life Writing, skillfully edited by Paul John Eakin, addresses this fundamental question. The book is the result of eleven prominent 'life writers' writing, presenting, arguing, and re-writing their ideas on the ethics of writing from real life.... Each essay in this collection...
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