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Hybridity in Life Writing Combining Text and Images
This book offers new perspectives on text/image hybridity in the context of life writing. Each chapter explores the very topical issue of how writers...
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Manuscript and Women’s Life Writing
Most women’s life writing of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was written in manuscript and often circulated (or “published”) in manuscript;...
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Introduction: Digital Life Writing, Women Vloggers and Rural Life
The chapter introduces the genre of rural life vlogging and how this book undertakes ecocriticism, the study of the relationship between literature,...
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Simon Mawer’s Book of Life: Mendel’s Dwarf as Fictional Genetic Life Writing
In this chapter, I argue that Simon Mawer’s novel Mendel’s Dwarf (1997) illustrates how genetics has transformed not only the novel’s aesthetics of...
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Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writing
This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius...
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Conclusion. Ecotonic Selves: Survival and Indian Ocean Life Writing
Markus P. M. Vink heralded the Indian Ocean as the “New Thalassology” in his groundbreaking 2007 article. Porousness, permeability, and connectedness...
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Svevo: (A) Life and Writing
This chapter includes a reading of Italo Svevo’s novel A Life (1892) in the light of Darwin’s notion of “struggle for life” and takes into...
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Biographical Writing
Biographical writing in the early modern period took many different forms, appearing in funeral sermons, epitaphs, hagiography, prefaces,...
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“A Female, & Past 60 Years of Age!”: Older Age in Women’s Later Life Writing 1800–1850
This chapter addresses how women used life-writing forms, particularly journals and letters, to explore the gendered experience of growing older in...
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The Hybrid Life Writing of Sally Mann: Capturing Human Nature in Words and Images
This chapter analyzes the memoir Hold Still, written by the American fine art photographer Sally Mann. The hybrid interplay of text and image in Hold...
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Finding the Right Wor(l)ds: Creative Writing as Aesthetic and Existential Practice in Later Life
There is an increasing interest in the application of creative writing in later life. While much of the literature has acknowledged that creative...
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Therapeutic Writing: As the Opposite of Creative Writing
“The studies of Therapeutic Writing” is an approach to treat writing and is considered writing as a thorough self-diagnosis and treatment. The...
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Conclusion: Rural Life Vloggers Become Ecofeminist Life Writers
This book explores the ways in which young women turn to rural life vlogging on social as well as traditional media as part of their evolving...
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Mourning as a Resistance Trope. Trauma, History, and Memory in Indian Ocean Life Writing: An Introduction
Postcolonial literary criticism has recently focused its scrutiny on life writing, that is, the memoirs and experiences of citizens from former...
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Writing a Life Written in Pictures: Postmemorial Phototextualities in Helena Janeczek’s La ragazza con la Leica
This chapter examines Helena Janeczek’s The Girl with the Leica (2017), a phototextual experiment in life writing about the pioneering...
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Face Forms in Life-Writing of the Interwar Years
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks...
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‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing
Yonge’s childhood autobiography is well known to scholars as a record of her parents’ influence and companionship with her cousins, but she also...
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Audre Lorde, Black Writing, and Intersectional Aging
This chapter will consider the depiction of aging and its intersection with other kinds of difference in Audre Lorde’s poetry, life writing, and...
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Writing Time: Marcel Proust’s Optics
Chapter three chronicles Marcel Proust’s quest to remake the novel by finding a way to capture the passage of time through writing. Beginning with...