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UNINA9910797921803321 |
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Meihuizen Nicholas |
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Achieving autobiographical form : a twentieth century perspective / / by Nicholas Meihuizen |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill-Rodopi, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (239 p.) |
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Costerus New Series, , 0165-9618 ; ; Volume 216 |
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Autobiography - Authorship |
Biography as a literary form |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Yeats’s Reveries over Childhood and Youth -- Conrad: A Personal Record -- Martin Amis: Experience -- Frank Kermode: Not Entitled -- Andrew Motion: In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood -- Three Authors: Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone. Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self’s immersion in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world. The quality of the resultant self-scrutiny enables the author to transform everyday reflex into the act of attention that results in formal achievement, a uniquely crafted structure. Meihuizen’s book helps demonstrate how each piece of autobiographical writing under consideration in it (works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee) discovers a unique form. |
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UNINA9910787364903321 |
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Autore |
Ronald Douglas |
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Youth, heroism and war propaganda : Britain and the young maritime hero, 1745-1820 / / Douglas Ronald |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , [2015] |
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1-350-00201-1 |
1-4742-1121-6 |
1-4725-2383-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Bloomsbury studies in military history |
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Heroes - Great Britain |
Naval biography - Great Britain |
Propaganda, British - History - 18th century |
Propaganda, British - History - 19th century |
Sailors in literature |
Sailors - Great Britain |
Sailors - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Sailors - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Dates, Spelling, Language and Titles -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction: Britannia sends a poor Boy to sea -- 2: 'Youthful Years': The Young Midshipman in Naval Biography, 1745-1798 -- 3: 'Our young officer': Young heroes in the Chronicle's Biographical Memoirs, 1799-1818 -- 4: Youthful Warriors: Their 'heroic Atchievements' Become News, 1745-1798 -- 5: 'Intrepid youthful heroes': Their 'heroic Atchievements' Are the News in the Chronicle, 1799-1818 -- 6: 'Isle of Love': The 'sea-lover' in Nautical Verse, 1745-1798 -- 7: 'Love at home': 'My son, a mariner' in the Chronicle's Nautical Verse, 1799-1818 -- 8: 'Floating Houses' at war: 'Distressed Objects' and 'little Tyrants' -- in Naval Polemic, 1745-1798 -- 9: Heroic humanity: The 'destitute midshipman' and 'unfortunate youth' in the Chronicle's Polemical Discourses 1799-1815 -- 10: |
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'Young Officers': Political Youth, 1815-1820 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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"Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long 18th century. At that time, Britain was searching for a new national identity, and the young maritime hero and his exploits conjured images of vigour, energy, enthusiasm and courage. Adopted as centrepiece in a campaign of concerted war propaganda leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the young hero came to represent much that was quintessentially British at this major turning point in the nation's history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, this study shows how the young hero gave maritime youth a symbolic power which it had never before had in Britain. It offers a valuable contribution to the field of British military and naval history, as well as the study of British identity, youth, heroism and propaganda."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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