Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives |
Contents
Life Narrative Definitions and Distinctions | 1 |
Autobiographical Subjects | 15 |
Autobiographical Acts | 49 |
Life Narrative in Historical Perspective | 83 |
A History of Autobiography Criticism Part 1 Defining the Genre | 111 |
A History of Autobiography Criticism Part 2 Contemporary Theorizing | 137 |
A Tool Kit Twenty Strategies for Reading Life Narratives | 165 |
Appendixes | 181 |
Fiftytwo Genres of Life Narrative | 183 |
Group and Classroom Projects | 209 |
Internet Resources | 215 |
Journals | 221 |
Notes | 223 |
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Page xvi - It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.