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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... thoughts about Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. My students at the University of Illinois, The College of Staten Island, and the CUNY Graduate Center who sat in classes and seminars about American autobiography ...
... thoughts about Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. My students at the University of Illinois, The College of Staten Island, and the CUNY Graduate Center who sat in classes and seminars about American autobiography ...
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... thought closed or to examine a work by Bakhtin that might shed added light on an analysis of autobiographical strategies. My long and leisurely discussions with Nick Lyons about matters literary, from big fish like Moby Dick to the ...
... thought closed or to examine a work by Bakhtin that might shed added light on an analysis of autobiographical strategies. My long and leisurely discussions with Nick Lyons about matters literary, from big fish like Moby Dick to the ...
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... thought to make So many selves, so many sensuous worlds, As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming With the metaphysical changes that occur, Merely in living as and where we live. 28 NOVEMBER 1, 1988 Style and Autobiography The man ...
... thought to make So many selves, so many sensuous worlds, As if the air, the mid-day air, was swarming With the metaphysical changes that occur, Merely in living as and where we live. 28 NOVEMBER 1, 1988 Style and Autobiography The man ...
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... thought was truly a horrible one, and one which it was not easy to overcome. The case sometimes stood thus: At every gate through which we were to pass, we saw a watchman—at every ferry a guard—on every bridge a sentinel—and in every ...
... thought was truly a horrible one, and one which it was not easy to overcome. The case sometimes stood thus: At every gate through which we were to pass, we saw a watchman—at every ferry a guard—on every bridge a sentinel—and in every ...
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... thoughts, spaces, or materials. The appeal of the grid to city planners from ancient Kyoto to the newest suburban town is that it promises to confine human contrariness within rational boundaries. A walker in the city can move about in ...
... thoughts, spaces, or materials. The appeal of the grid to city planners from ancient Kyoto to the newest suburban town is that it promises to confine human contrariness within rational boundaries. A walker in the city can move about in ...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin | |
Louis Sullivans | |
Jane Addamss Twenty Years at Hull | |
Emma Goldmans Living My Life | |
Gertrude Steins | |
The Autobiography of William | |
Richard Wrights Black | |
Edward Dahlbergs Because I | |
Notes | |
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Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography Herbert A. Leibowitz Vista previa limitada - 1991 |
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