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Misfits and ecological saints: strategies for non-normative living in autistic life writing. [PDF]
The historical construction of autism since the early 20th century has retained a focus on deficient 'interest in people, severe impairments in communication and bizarre responses to the environment' (DSM III). This means that he or she is represented as
Stenning A.
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This essay addresses developments in religious life writing in the Romantic period through examination of auto/biographies, journals, and letters in both print and manuscript. Particular interests include the genre of the spiritual conversion narrative, literary uses of confession and conversion, life writing and religious historiography, and women’s ...
J. Cormac
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Reviews of publications by Steven King, Florence Boos, and Rachel Woodward and K. Neil Jenkings
Over recent decades, scholars from a range of disciplines have used life writings from below to explore the lives of people outside elites and the secure middle class.
T.G. Ashplant
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Writing Life, Writing Time, Writing the Mother
This article focuses on Ernaux’s later life memories of a twentieth century daughter-mother relationship, rendered in the light of this era’s historical transformations and its tensions between individual freedom and collective ‘fate’, and between pre ...
Margery Vibe Skagen
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Tracking Memes in the Wild: Visual Rhetoric and Image Circulation in Environmental Communication
Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental communication and rhetoric, this essay examines the role of visual circulation in digital environmental discourse.
Madison Jones +9 more
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This paper proposes that the medium of animation enriches the narrative portrayal of lived experiences. Despite the rise in popularity of animation as a tool for storytelling on digital video sharing platforms, as of yet, little scholarship explores the
Brandon Petryna
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The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry. Editorial
This editorial introduces the four articles of the section “The Self in Verse. Exploring Autobiographical Poetry” and connects their specific findings to a variety of more general aspects in the study of life-writing.
Johannes Görbert +2 more
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Authority and Authenticity in Art Writing [PDF]
The review discusses the edited volume Pro Domo. Kunstgeschichte in eigener Sache. The volume aims to analyse systematically an understudied sub-genre of art writing: texts that were written by confidantes of the artists, thus suggesting a specific ...
Hans Christian Hönes
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Presencing Connection: Life Writing and Personal Development [PDF]
The global present has been diagnosed as a disruptive moment of disconnection. In this essay, I stage an interdisciplinary encounter between the self-reflexive genre of life writing on the one hand, and recent theories of personal development and ...
Vera Alexander
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Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
way. Clapp treats Mary McCarthy’s career as a potential object of analysis in its own right, as distinct from the textual objects produced during the course of that career.
H. Dix
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