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Life writing : the spirit of the age and the state of the art / edited by Meg Jensen and Jane Jordan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 238 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443808606
  • 1443808601
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Life writing.DDC classification:
  • 809.93592 22
LOC classification:
  • PN56.A89 L54 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOUR PLATES; BLAKE MORRISON AND HANIF KUREISHI IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOUR PLATES; BLAKE MORRISON AND HANIF KUREISHI IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; STATE OF THE ART; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; NEAL ASCHERSON AND TIM BULLAMORE IN CONVERSATION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; RACHEL CUSK IN CONVERSATION WITH MEG JENSEN; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE.
PART VHANIF KUREISHI AND BLAKE MORRISON IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART VI; VICTORIA GLENDINNING AND VIRGINIA NICOLSON IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD COHEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS.
Summary: In our age, self-publishing, self-broadcasting, and telling stories about our own lives and the lives of others are all-pervasive. This is also the age of the witness, the age of testimony in which first-hand accounts, personal experience, life change and evolution are valued, for good or ill, over distanced reflection. What are we to make of all this telling of lives? The essays collected in Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art from writers and academics associated wi ...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231).

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In our age, self-publishing, self-broadcasting, and telling stories about our own lives and the lives of others are all-pervasive. This is also the age of the witness, the age of testimony in which first-hand accounts, personal experience, life change and evolution are valued, for good or ill, over distanced reflection. What are we to make of all this telling of lives? The essays collected in Life Writing: The Spirit of the Age and the State of the Art from writers and academics associated wi ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOUR PLATES; BLAKE MORRISON AND HANIF KUREISHI IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOUR PLATES; BLAKE MORRISON AND HANIF KUREISHI IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; STATE OF THE ART; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; PART II; NEAL ASCHERSON AND TIM BULLAMORE IN CONVERSATION; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; RACHEL CUSK IN CONVERSATION WITH MEG JENSEN; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE.

PART VHANIF KUREISHI AND BLAKE MORRISON IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA KIERNAN; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; PART VI; VICTORIA GLENDINNING AND VIRGINIA NICOLSON IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD COHEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS.

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