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When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography by Conway, Jill Ker
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- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780679766452
- Book Title
- When Memory Speaks : Exploring the Art of Autobiography
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 7.9 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General
- Item Weight
- 8.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679766456
ISBN-13
9780679766452
eBay Product ID (ePID)
254571
Product Key Features
Book Title
When Memory Speaks : Exploring the Art of Autobiography
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-049452
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
808/.06692
Synopsis
J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admiredautobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir- the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the narrative patterns typically found in autobiographies by men to the tale of the classical Greek hero and his epic journey of adventure. She shows how this configuration evolved, in memoirs, into the passionate romantic struggling against the conventions of society, into the frontier hero battling the wilderness, into self-made men overcoming economic obstacles to create an invention or a fortune--or, more recently, into a quest for meaning, for an understandable past, for an ethnic identity. In contrast, she sees the designs that women commonly employ for their memoirs as evolving from the writings of the mystics--such as Dame Julian of Norwich or St. Teresa of Avila--about their relationship with an all-powerful God. As against the male autobiographer's expectation of power over his fate, we see the woman memoirist again and again believing that she lacks command of her destiny, and tending to censor her own story. Throughout, Conway underlines the memoir's magic quality of allowing us to enter another human being's life and mind--and how this experience enlarges and instructs our own lives., J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the narrative patterns typically found in autobiographies by men to the tale of the classical Greek hero and his epic journey of adventure. She shows how this configuration evolved, in memoirs, into the passionate romantic struggling against the conventions of society, into the frontier hero battling the wilderness, into self-made men overcoming economic obstacles to create an invention or a fortune--or, more recently, into a quest for meaning, for an understandable past, for an ethnic identity. In contrast, she sees the designs that women commonly employ for their memoirs as evolving from the writings of the mystics--such as Dame Julian of Norwich or St. Teresa of Avila--about their relationship with an all-powerful God. As against the male autobiographer's expectation of power over his fate, we see the woman memoirist again and again believing that she lacks command of her destiny, and tending to censor her own story. Throughout, Conway underlines the memoir's magic quality of allowing us to enter another human being's life and mind--and how this experience enlarges and instructs our own lives.
LC Classification Number
CT25.C68 1998
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