Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American AutobiographyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013 M04 3 - 400 páginas How does the autobiographer want us to perceive him? How do we penetrate the memoirist’s strategies and subterfuges—sometimes conscious, usually—brilliant—and discover the real person screened behind them? In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz explores the self-portraits of eight Americans whose lives span almost two centuries and encompass a stunning range of personality and circumstances: Benjamin Franklin, Louis Sullivan, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, and Edward Dahlberg. In pursuit of clues to both the human essence and the literary artifice of each, he examines their styles (Franklin’s plain talk and “possum’s wit,” Sullivan’s “gilded abstractions,” Stein’s “gossipy ventriloquism,” Williams’s “grumpy clowning” and foxy innocence), their metaphors, and their choices of incident, looking beyond their visions of themselves to their true identities. In American autobiography particularly Leibowitz finds an extraordinary medley of voices—from the balanced objectivity of Addams and the heated oratory of Goldman, as each encounters the promises and failures of the democratic ideal, to the uneasy self-consciousness of Wright, reflecting the tensions of growing up in a world he did not trust, and the baroque contrivances of Dahlberg, who painted himself in mythic proportions on the American canvas. As he guides us through the labyrinths and mazes of these self-histories, Leibowitz relates the material to a wide cross section of the American experience and helps to interpret our history. His engrossing and highly original book is both a contribution to biographical criticism and a vivid recapturing of some remarkable American lives. |
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... ” in The Autobiography of an Idea. She shares the secret totem with her chums. The mature woman feels both separation from and attachment to the humdrum villagers going about their unforgettably human business , and her autobiography.
... ” in The Autobiography of an Idea. She shares the secret totem with her chums. The mature woman feels both separation from and attachment to the humdrum villagers going about their unforgettably human business , and her autobiography.
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Explorations in American Autobiography Herbert Leibowitz. going about their unforgettably human business , and her autobiography was to draw nourishment from their sassy and plaintive wisdom - she had " been in Sorrow's kitchen and ...
Explorations in American Autobiography Herbert Leibowitz. going about their unforgettably human business , and her autobiography was to draw nourishment from their sassy and plaintive wisdom - she had " been in Sorrow's kitchen and ...
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... human contrariness within rational boundaries . A walker in the city can move about in purposeful directions ; fixed points and intersections facilitate the delivery of goods , social visits , and the circulation of ideas . Yet cities ...
... human contrariness within rational boundaries . A walker in the city can move about in purposeful directions ; fixed points and intersections facilitate the delivery of goods , social visits , and the circulation of ideas . Yet cities ...
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... human " person " is that site filled by nature ( or by divinity , or by guilt ) , girdled , closed by a social envelope which is anything but highly regarded : the polite gesture ( when it is postulated ) is the sign of respect ...
... human " person " is that site filled by nature ( or by divinity , or by guilt ) , girdled , closed by a social envelope which is anything but highly regarded : the polite gesture ( when it is postulated ) is the sign of respect ...
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... Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen , as by little Advantages that occur every Day . " ( 207 ) Franklin manages his rags - to - riches fable with the same skill , composure , and ...
... Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen , as by little Advantages that occur every Day . " ( 207 ) Franklin manages his rags - to - riches fable with the same skill , composure , and ...
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Louis Sullivans | |
Jane Addamss Twenty Years at Hull | |
Emma Goldmans Living My Life | |
Gertrude Steins The Autobiography | |
The Autobiography of William | |
Richard Wrights Black | |
Edward Dahlbergs Because I | |
Was Flesh | |
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Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography Herbert A. Leibowitz Vista previa limitada - 1991 |
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