Altered egos [[electronic resource] ] : authority in American autobiography / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina |
810/.9/492
8109492 |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography
Authority in literature American prose literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-52390-5
0-19-534523-1 1-4294-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes
Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451344803321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 | ||
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Altered egos [[electronic resource] ] : authority in American autobiography / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina |
810/.9/492
8109492 |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography
Authority in literature American prose literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-280-52390-5
0-19-534523-1 1-4294-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes
Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784989103321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Altered egos : authority in American autobiography / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina |
810/.9/492
8109492 |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography
Authority in literature American prose literature - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-280-52390-5
0-19-534523-1 1-4294-0101-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1 Prologue: The Case of the Counterfeit Autobiography; 2 Introduction: Authority, Autobiography, America; 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Self-Constitutional Conventions; 4 Prose and Cons: The Autobiographies of P. T. Barnum; 5 False ""I's"": Mark Twain's Pseudonymous Autobiography; 6 (En)Slave(d) Narrative: Early Afro-American Autobiography; 7 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Secession, Confederacy, Reconstruction; 8 Black Elk Speaks With Forked Tongue; 9 Biculturalism in Contemporary Autobiography: Richard Rodriguez and Maxine Hong Kingston; 10 Conclusion; Notes
Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820665803321 |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 | ||
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Recovering Bodies [[electronic resource] ] : Illness, Disability, and Life Writing |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 616 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MairsNancy |
Collana | Wisconsin studies in American autobiography Recovering bodies |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form Electronic books. -- local People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism People with disabilities -- United States -- Psychology Sick -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism Sick -- United States -- Psychology Sick - History and criticism - United States People with disabilities - History and criticism - United States Sick - Psychology - United States People with disabilities - Psychology - United States Breast Neoplasms Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Disabled Persons HIV Infections Breast Diseases Persons Neoplasms by Site Slow Virus Diseases Lentivirus Infections Named Groups Neoplasms Virus Diseases Skin Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases Diseases Retroviridae Infections Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases RNA Virus Infections Clinical Psychology Psychiatry Health & Biological Sciences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-42412-2
9786612424120 0-299-15563-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456253103321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997 | ||
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Recovering Bodies [[electronic resource] ] : Illness, Disability, and Life Writing |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 616 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MairsNancy |
Collana | Wisconsin studies in American autobiography Recovering bodies |
Soggetto topico |
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form Electronic books. -- local People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism People with disabilities -- United States -- Psychology Sick -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism Sick -- United States -- Psychology Sick - History and criticism - United States People with disabilities - History and criticism - United States Sick - Psychology - United States People with disabilities - Psychology - United States Breast Neoplasms Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Disabled Persons HIV Infections Breast Diseases Persons Neoplasms by Site Slow Virus Diseases Lentivirus Infections Neoplasms Virus Diseases Skin Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases Diseases Retroviridae Infections Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases RNA Virus Infections Clinical Psychology Psychiatry Health & Biological Sciences |
ISBN |
1-282-42412-2
9786612424120 0-299-15563-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778642803321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997 | ||
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Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life writing / / G. Thomas Couser ; with a foreword by Nancy Mairs |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 616 |
Collana | Wisconsin studies in American autobiography |
Soggetto topico |
Sick - United States - Biography - History and criticism
People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism Sick - United States - Psychology People with disabilities - United States - Psychology Autobiography Biography as a literary form |
ISBN |
1-282-42412-2
9786612424120 0-299-15563-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Nancy Mairs -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Human Conditions-Illness, Disability, and Life Writing -- 2. Medical Discourse and Subjectivity -- 3. Self-Reconstruction: Personal Narratives of Breast Cancer -- 4. HIV/AIDS and Its Stories -- 5. Crossing (Out) the Border: Autobiography and Physical Disability -- 6. Signs of Life: Deafness and Personal Narrative -- 7. Epilogue: The Value of Body Stories -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812082003321 |
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1997 | ||
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Signifying bodies [[electronic resource] ] : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 810.9/92087 |
Collana | Corporealities |
Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism
People with disabilities, Writings of, American People with disabilities in literature Autobiography |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-472-07069-X
1-282-63909-9 9786612639098 0-472-02659-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the some body memoir -- Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation -- Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir -- Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship -- Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart -- Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister -- Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying -- Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary -- Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship -- Epilogue: the new disability memoir. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460321903321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 | ||
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Signifying bodies [[electronic resource] ] : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 810.9/92087 |
Collana | Corporealities |
Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism
People with disabilities, Writings of, American People with disabilities in literature Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-472-07069-X
1-282-63909-9 9786612639098 0-472-02659-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the some body memoir -- Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation -- Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir -- Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship -- Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart -- Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister -- Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying -- Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary -- Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship -- Epilogue: the new disability memoir. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785172003321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Signifying bodies : disability in contemporary life writing / / G. Thomas Couser |
Autore | Couser G. Thomas |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 204 p. :) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 810.9/92087 |
Collana | Corporealities |
Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities - United States - History and criticism
People with disabilities, Writings of, American People with disabilities in literature Autobiography |
ISBN |
0-472-07069-X
1-282-63909-9 9786612639098 0-472-02659-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: the some body memoir -- Paradigms cost: disability and cultural representation -- Rhetoric and self-representation in disability memoir -- Double exposure: performing conjoined twinship -- Identity, identicality, and life writing: telling (the silent) twins apart -- Autoethnography and developmental disability: riding the bus with my sister -- Disability as metaphor: what's wrong with Lying -- Lucy Grealy and the some body obituary -- Life writing and disability law: undoing hardship -- Epilogue: the new disability memoir. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826277303321 |
Couser G. Thomas
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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