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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
American Classics, 2018Wed, 30 Jan 2019 06:57:00 GMT autobiography of benjamin franklin pdf Ancestry. Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, a soaper and candlemaker. Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England on December 23, 1657, the son
Joseph W. McCloskey
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Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions, 2018Throughout history, individuals have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings provide an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, and the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world ...
L. Marcus
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Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2018
Autobiography has emerged within a number of educational endeavors as an informing principle which directs both theory and practice. This article argues that despite this activity, there is still little widespread appreciation with in education for its ...
R. Graham
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Autobiography has emerged within a number of educational endeavors as an informing principle which directs both theory and practice. This article argues that despite this activity, there is still little widespread appreciation with in education for its ...
R. Graham
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An Autobiography, is an Autobiography, is an Autobiography
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1992In volume 34, nos. 1-2 (1992) of Canadian Slavonic Papers, Donna Orwin published a comprehensive review of A.B. Wachtel' s The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth (1990), asserting that "the style and structure of the book are clear. The author moves skillfully from close textual analysis to textual history, literary biography and on to ...
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Carnaps Autobiographie als Autobiographie
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2019Abstract Rudolf Carnap’s intellectual autobiography was published in 1963. The specific characteristics of this kind of text and its reception shape his self-testimony. This article examines how these characteristics – typical narrative position and structure, problems of truth and veracity, well-rounded self-presentation – are manifest ...
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, 2011 My grandfathers were both immigrants to the US, one from Estonia, then part of the Russian empire, and the other from England. The Estonian, William Morris Leiserson, was Jewish. He fled Estonia in 1890 at the age of seven, through a forest in the dark of night, with his mother and two brothers. The family is not sure why they had to flee.
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1947
One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815–82) requested that his autobiography be published posthumously. The two-volume work, first published in 1883 and reissued here in the second edition of that year, recounts his childhood, successful career at the Post Office, and multiple achievements as a ...
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One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815–82) requested that his autobiography be published posthumously. The two-volume work, first published in 1883 and reissued here in the second edition of that year, recounts his childhood, successful career at the Post Office, and multiple achievements as a ...
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2007
This chapter discusses how autobiography is represented schematically in Dante's poem by the synthesis of Platonic allegory with traditional biblical motifs. Dante's descent into Malebolge—and particularly the figure of Geryon, which epitomizes it—is an allegorical motif claiming no existence outside the text.
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This chapter discusses how autobiography is represented schematically in Dante's poem by the synthesis of Platonic allegory with traditional biblical motifs. Dante's descent into Malebolge—and particularly the figure of Geryon, which epitomizes it—is an allegorical motif claiming no existence outside the text.
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Coleridge's Biographia : When is an Autobiography Not an Autobiography?
Biography, 1997Critical discussion of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria has been dogged by questions about its form and genre since the book was first published in 1817. This article aims to answer these questions by considering the historical conditions under which the work was published; certain distinctive features of Coleridge's project; and the conventions of ...
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