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Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

by Elizabeth Teresa Howe

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.

Autobiographical Writing by Early Modern Hispanic Women

by Elizabeth Teresa Howe

Women’s life writing in general has too often been ignored, dismissed, or relegated to a separate category in those few studies of the genre that include it. The present work addresses these issues and offers a countervailing argument that focuses on the contributions of women writers to the study of autobiography in Spanish during the early modern period. There are, indeed, examples of autobiographical writing by women in Spain and its New World empire, evident as early as the fourteenth-century Memorias penned by Doña Leonor López de Cordóba and continuing through the seventeenth-century Cartas of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. What sets these accounts apart, the author shows, are the variety of forms adopted by each woman to tell her life and the circumstances in which she adapts her narrative to satisfy the presence of male critics-whether ecclesiastic or political, actual or imagined-who would dismiss or even alter her life story. Analyzing how each of these women viewed her life and, conversely, how their contemporaries-both male and female-received and sometimes edited her account, Howe reveals the tension in the texts between telling a ’life’ and telling a ’lie’.

Autobiographie und Geschichte: Wilhelm Dilthey, Georg Misch, Karl Löwith, Gottfried Benn, Alfred Döblin

by Michael Jaeger

Fünf Studien über Autobiographen, die die Spannung von geschichtlicher und natürlicher Identität zum Ausdruck bringen.

Autobiographies: Edited By His Son Francis Darwin (Mobi Classics Series)

by Charles Darwin

The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning scientific curiosity and love of the natural world, which led to him joining the expedition on the Beagle. Darwin follows this with survey of his career and ends with a reckoning of his life's work. Interspersed with these recollections are fascinating portraits - from his devoted wife Emma and his talented father, both bullying and kind, to the leading figures of the Victorian scientific world he counted among his friends, including Lyell and Huxley. Honest and illuminating, these memoirs reveal a man who was isolated by his controversial beliefs and whose towering achievements were attained by a life-long passion for the discoveries of science.

Autobiographies I: I Knock at the Door and Pictures in the Hallway (Sean O'Casey autobiography #1)

by Sean O'Casey

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.'Sean O'Casey, 1948Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiographies, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.This volume contains the first two parts: I Knock at the Door (1939) and Pictures in the Hallway (1942). The former charts the childhood of young 'John Cassidy' (as O'Casey was christened), powerfully marked by the death of his father and his affliction by the eye infection trachoma. Pictures in the Hallway carries the story into John's adolescence, and tentative steps into the adult world of work, the opposite sex and political awakening.

Autobiographies II: Drums Under the Windows and Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well (Sean O'Casey autobiography #2)

by Sean O'Casey

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiography, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.Drums Under the Windows (1945) sees O'Casey's young (pre-writing) life taking shape amid the extraordinary tumult of Ireland in the early twentieth century, thus leading him into the fray of the Easter Rising of 1916. Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well (1949) charts the steps towards his emigration from Ireland in 1926: a move pressed upon O'Casey by his hard struggle against the restrictions and prohibitions wrought by Irish society, church and state.Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.

Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star (Sean O'Casey autobiography #3)

by Sean O'Casey

'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.'Sean O'Casey, 1948Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiography, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.As its title suggests, Rose and Crown (1952) reflects O'Casey's experience of making a new home in England where, socialist passion intact, he makes a sharp study of the General Strike of 1926. Sunset and Evening Star (1954) offers both valediction and celebration: for though O'Casey views Ireland as 'a decaying ark... afraid of the falling rain of the world's thought', he can still envisage the nation's young 'throwing out some of the musty stuff, bringing the fresh and the new...'Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please seeour blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.

Autobiographies in Experimental Psychology: Frank A. Beach, Fred S. Keller, Howard H. Kendler, Karl H. Pribram, Curt P. Richter (Psychology Revivals)

by Frank A. Beach Fred S. Keller Howard H. Kendler Karl H. Pribram Curt P. Richter Ronald Gandelman

Originally published in 1985, the proceedings in this volume followed a different format from the usual symposium. Participants were asked to share their lives and thoughts about the future of the discipline; to share insights which come only from looking upon long, productive, and innovative careers. The initial symposium focused upon animal and human research in the area of physiological-experimental psychology. The participants were asked to address two general issues. One autobiographical in nature, concerned the factors which led to their interest in the study of behaviour, and in particular to the research directions they followed. The second issue concerned the future of psychology, that is, their thoughts concerning fruitful avenues of present and future research; in other words, what they thought research psychologists would be doing – or ought to be doing – in a decade’s time.

Autobiographies in Experimental Psychology: Frank A. Beach, Fred S. Keller, Howard H. Kendler, Karl H. Pribram, Curt P. Richter (Psychology Revivals)

by Ronald Gandelman

Originally published in 1985, the proceedings in this volume followed a different format from the usual symposium. Participants were asked to share their lives and thoughts about the future of the discipline; to share insights which come only from looking upon long, productive, and innovative careers. The initial symposium focused upon animal and human research in the area of physiological-experimental psychology. The participants were asked to address two general issues. One autobiographical in nature, concerned the factors which led to their interest in the study of behaviour, and in particular to the research directions they followed. The second issue concerned the future of psychology, that is, their thoughts concerning fruitful avenues of present and future research; in other words, what they thought research psychologists would be doing – or ought to be doing – in a decade’s time.

Autobiographische Schriften: Leben im Widerspruch — Versuch einer intellektuellen Autobiographie. Nebenbei geschehen — Erinnerungen. Texte aus dem Nachlaß (René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand #18)

by Mario König Oliver König

Geboren im Kaiserreich, aufgewachsenen in der Weimarer Republik, geprägt vom Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus und den Jahren der Emigration in der Schweiz, kehrte René König 1953 nach Deutschland zurück und wurde zu einem der Wiederbegründer der deutschen Soziologie. Die 1980 zuerst veröffentlichte Autobiographie "Leben im Widerspruch" beschreibt die einzelnen Etappen dieses Lebensweges, die Schulzeit in Danzig mit seinem polnischen Hinterland, die Studienjahre in Wien, Berlin und Paris und die vielfältige Tätigkeit als akademischer Lehrer in Europa, Amerika und Asien, die Reisen des jungen Studenten in die Länder des Nahen Ostens, die Begegnung mit der Kultur Siziliens, Erfahrungen als Betreuer eines bundesdeutschen Entwicklungshilfeprojektes in Afghanistan und die Auseinandersetzung mit den indianischen Kulturen im Südwesten der USA. Der zweite, bisher unveröffentlichte Text entstammt einer im Nachlass befindlichen unvollendeten Autobiographie, die mehr persönlich gehalten werden sollte und den Charakter von "Erinnerungen" hat. An ihr hat René König bis ungefähr 1990 gearbeitet. Der Titel "Nebenbei geschehen" stammt von ihm. Behandelt werden in diesen Kapiteln die Lebensabschnitte in Danzig, Berlin und in Zürich.

Autobiographische Schriften: Leben im Widerspruch — Versuch einer intellektuellen Autobiographie. Nebenbei geschehen — Erinnerungen. Texte aus dem Nachlass (René König Schriften. Ausgabe letzter Hand #18)

by René König

Geboren im Kaiserreich, aufgewachsenen in der Weimarer Republik, geprägt vom Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus und den Jahren der Emigration in der Schweiz, kehrte René König 1953 nach Deutschland zurück und wurde zu einem der Wiederbegründer der deutschen Soziologie. Die 1980 zuerst veröffentlichte Autobiographie "Leben im Widerspruch" beschreibt die einzelnen Etappen dieses Lebensweges, die Schulzeit in Danzig mit seinem polnischen Hinterland, die Studienjahre in Wien, Berlin und Paris und die vielfältige Tätigkeit als akademischer Lehrer in Europa, Amerika und Asien, die Reisen des jungen Studenten in die Länder des Nahen Ostens, die Begegnung mit der Kultur Siziliens, Erfahrungen als Betreuer eines bundesdeutschen Entwicklungshilfeprojektes in Afghanistan und die Auseinandersetzung mit den indianischen Kulturen im Südwesten der USA. Der zweite, bisher unveröffentlichte Text entstammt einer im Nachlass befindlichen unvollendeten Autobiographie, die mehr persönlich gehalten werden sollte und den Charakter von "Erinnerungen" hat. An ihr hat René König bis ungefähr 1990 gearbeitet. Der Titel "Nebenbei geschehen" stammt von ihm. Behandelt werden in diesen Kapiteln die Lebensabschnitte in Danzig, Berlin und in Zürich.

Autobiographisches Wiedererzählen: Eine interdisziplinäre Studie im qualitativen Längsschnitt (Medical Humanities #14)

by Shevek K. Selbert

Wie erzählen Menschen ihre Lebensgeschichten? Und wie verändern sich diese Erzählungen im Laufe der Zeit? Shevek K. Selbert widmet sich an der Schnittstelle von Biographieforschung, Psychologie und Erzählforschung vollumfänglich wiederholten biographisch-narrativen Interviews, die im Abstand von zehn Jahren geführt wurden. Als Pionierarbeit qualitativer Längsschnittforschung entwickelt er Methoden, um die Erzählversionen miteinander zu vergleichen - und bietet einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Dynamik sowie die (auch therapeutische) Bedeutung von Selbsterzählungen für die Identitätsbildung und die Lebensgestaltung.

The Autobiography: The Autobiography

by Kate Adie

Kate Adie's story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS encompasses Adie's reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. It offers a compelling combination of vivid frontline reporting and evocative writing and reveals the extraordinarily demanding life of the woman who is always at the heart of the action. Although an intensely private person, Kate Adie also divulges what it's like to be a woman in a man's world - an inspiration to many working women.

Autobiography (The New Critical Idiom Ser.)

by Linda Anderson

If every writer necessarily draws on their own life, is any writing outside the realm of 'autobiography'? The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts; different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to memoirs and diaries; uses of the genre in their historical and cultural contexts; major autobiographical writers including St Augustine, Bunyan, Boswell, Rousseau and Wordsworth, alongside non-canonical autobiographies by women; twentieth-century autobiography including women's writing, black and postcolonial writing, and personal criticism; a new chapter on narrative and new material examining recent trends in autobiography such as blogs, the popularity of literary memoirs and recent developments in theory on testimonial writing. Combining theoretical discussion with thought-provoking readings of major texts, this is the ideal introduction to the study of a fascinating genre.

Autobiography: Autobiography

by Neville Cardus

Autobiography was first published in 1947 and was described by J. B. Priestley as 'one of the best pieces of writing that ever found a way to our Book Society. He is a writer who has learned how to write and the result is glorious.' Sir Neville Cardus is best remembered as a writer on both cricket and music and during his lifetime achieved an unparalleled reputation as one of England's greatest journalists on these two very different subjects. Born in Rusholme in Manchester Cardus carved out an international reputation for himself by his own ability, efforts and imagination and created, as his biographer Christopher Brookes put it, 'a beguiling personal legend in the course of a career which extended over fifty years.' 'This is a very, very good book. Cricket and music - how he makes both these worlds pulsate, life comic as well as life magnificent.' Robert Lynd'A superb work by a master of English.' Wilfred Pickles

An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.

The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller

by Sir Alastair Cook

Celebrate this fantastic year of cricket with the definitive memoir from cricketing legend, Sir Alastair Cook.AS SEEN IN THE TIMES________Sir Alastair Cook is England's greatest batsman. In 12 years he achieved 12,472 runs, 161 Test matches, 33 hundreds, and 4 Ashes series wins.But such records only tell half the story. Why, at the relatively early age of 33, did he suddenly quit?Cricket, the sport of gleaming whites and gentility, is polite, friendly, and reserved. But beneath the surface anxiety looms, tensions run high and emotions can be explosive.Alastair began and ended his England cricketing career on soaring highs, yet at times he feared for his career. He embodies the resilience, endurance and mental determination required at the highest level of international sport, fighting against the constant pressure and the ever-present fear of failure. He recounts the fiery fall-out with Kevin Pietersen and the ruthless decisions a captain must make. He expands on the highs of leading England to their first series win in India in 28 years, the glory of four Ashes wins and what, finally, convinced him to leave international cricket. To know Alastair Cook is to know what it takes to be successful, in any field. In this candid autobiography he captures not only what it takes to be one of England's greatest sportsmen but also the price paid by a professional athlete at the top of his game.

An Autobiography

by Angela Y. Davis

'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' GuardianA powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela DavisEdited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. It is reissued now with a new introduction by Davis, for a new audience inspired and galvanised by her ongoing activism and her extraordinary example.In the book, she describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.Told with warmth, brilliance, humour, and conviction, it is an unforgettable account of a life committed to radical change.

An Autobiography: Or The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Penguin Modern Classics Series)

by M. K Gandhi Mahadev Desai

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi’s lead, millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience, seeking change through ahimsa, or non-violence. For Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s, Gandhi’s autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a powerful and enduring statement of an extraordinary life.

An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (Penguin Modern Classics)

by M. K Gandhi Sunil Khilnani

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices, celibacy, and a life without violence. This is not a straightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

by Mohandas Gandhi

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field." Clearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself — in his own words, his own "confessions," his autobiography. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords. Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.

Autobiography: A Working Philosophy

by Eric Gill

ERIC GILL’s iconoclastic ideas on modern civilization, art, sex, and life generally, drop like bombshells from the pages of this account of his search for “The City of God.”Completely devoid of social or professional ambition and detesting material success, this artist of the first order preferred to live the simple life of a stone cutter and craftsman.Richly illustrated with 36 gravure reproductions of the author’s most outstanding work.

The Autobiography

by Marie Helvin

The candid and revealing autobiography of supermodel Marie HelvinOne of the original supermodels and international fashion icons, Marie Helvin has been an iconic image in every decade since the 1970s. She was a Hawaiian hippie child in the 60s, a magazine cover star in the 70s, a society supermodel in the 80s, a pioneer detox guru in the 90s and a reluctant reality TV contestant in 2006.In each decade she found herself in the company of the brightest and the best. Still at the forefront of the fashion industry, she is as much in demand as ever, most recently modelling for her seventh British Vogue cover.Marie's autobiography candidly tells the story of friendships with the rich and famous. She reveals the dark side of her own personality as she explains how, gradually, she came to believe in her own beauty and found fulfilment as an independent woman.Illustrated with photographs from many of the greats, including Bailey, Helmut Newton and Nick Knight, Marie Helvin's memoir is a remarkable story of our times.

The Autobiography: The Autobiography

by Richard Hill

The long-awaited autobiography of Richard Hill, World Cup winner and the rugby fan's most admired player.Nicknamed 'the Silent Assassin', Richard Hill is often most noticed when he isn't playing, as somehow his teams never perform as well without him as they do when he's around. This was shown both in the Lions tour of Australia in 2001 and in England's 2003 World Cup campaign. In his autobiography, he looks back across his hugely successful career as one of the last players in the game who has known both the amateur and professional eras. He provides revealing portraits of his team-mates and opponents, as well as explaining the keys to England's triumphs. He also discusses his frustration at the injuries that have blighted his career over the last two years. Hugely admired by rugby fans for his no-nonsense attitude to the game, only Martin Johnson in the recent era has earned such respect from fans and opponents alike.

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