In this book, this Australian photographer, one of the great contemporary photographers, gathers together a personal biography in which photographs mix with all kinds of personal and sentimental documents: facsimiles of his notebooks and diaries, passports, postcards, letters, drawings... They shape a collage that is as beautiful as it is disturbing in which word and image imitate each other and Pam demonstrates, as few other creators can, that everything can be turned into a small work of art if it finds the right eye and discourse. This is a unique volume in the guise of an artist's book which captures 45 years of work by an indispensable author. Spanish and English Text 262 images
This classic collection of American autobiographies brings together five frequently-taught texts that offer the widest variety of the American experience: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary...
Threads of Life argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now deeply embedded in contemporary cultural discourse, need reexamining.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
Here are first-time English translations of the autobiographical works of two important and influential Jewish mystics.
Presents the autobiography of the respected American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and physician.
... 1988); Suzette Henke's Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998); and, in the domain of French studies, Kathryn Robson's Writing Wounds: The Inscription of Trauma in Post-1968 ...
Complementing recent feminist studies of female self-representation, this book examines the dynamics of masculine self-representation in nineteenth-century British literature.
Alongside these more traditional literary forms, Couser expands the discussion of memoir to include film with what he calls "documemoir" (exemplified in Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect) and graphic narratives like Art Spiegelman's Maus.
This unique anthology, now with contributing editor C. Wayne Mayhall, includes spiritual autobiographies of both men and women from a variety of religious traditions within a multicultural context.