Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A Chapter on Autography
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
There's a Hole in My Sidewalk
Author: Portia NelsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582703779
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Designed to inspire self-discovery, "There's a Hole in My Sidewalk" contains more than 100 touching poems that gently guide readers to a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Edgar Allan Poe Analyzes Handwriting: A Chapter on Autography
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615182631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Edgar Allan Poe's classic work of graphology, which includes as much literary criticism as it does handwriting analysis, and also serves as an overview of the major literary figures of his time - some still well-known, many forgotten. This edition includes an introduction and a Biographical Dictionary of Poe's Subjects.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm XPublisher: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141185439
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Malcolm X's blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, where he converted to the Black Muslims and honed the energy and brilliance that made him one of the most important political figures of his time - and an icon in ours. It also charts the spiritual journey that took him beyond militancy, and led to his murder, a powerful story of transformation, redemption and betrayal. Vilified by his critics as an anti-white demagogue, Malcolm X gave a voice to unheard African-Americans, bringing them pride, hope and fearlessness, and remains an inspirational and controversial figure today.
The Autobiography Effect
Author: Dennis SchepPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000497321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Since the advent of post-structuralism, various authors have problematized the modern conception of autobiography by questioning the status of authorship and interrogating the relation between language and reality. Yet even after making autobiography into a theoretical problem, many of these authors ended up writing about themselves. This paradox stands at the center of this wide-ranging study of the form and function of autobiography in the work of authors who have distanced themselves from its modern instantiation. Discussing Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and others, this book grapples with the question of what it means to write the self when the self is understood as an effect of writing. Combining close reading, intellectual history and literary theory, The Autobiography Effect traces how precisely its theoretically problematic nature made autobiography into a central scene for the negotiation of philosophical positions and anxieties after structuralism.
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan PoeAutobiography, criticism, and index
Author: Edgar Allan PoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
A Philosophy of Autobiography
Author: Aakash Singh RathorePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429763549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol), literary autobiography (Hemingway, Das) as well as other genres of autobiography, including the graphic novel (Spiegelman, Satrapi), as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar, Pawar, Angelou, Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies, the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body, a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages, with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh, spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Waiting for a Visa, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Moveable Feast, Night, Baluta, My Story, Sun and Steel, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid, bold and authoritative, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, gender studies, political philosophy, media and popular culture, social exclusion, and race and discrimination studies.
Literati. Autography
Author: Edgar Allan PoeAutobiography of a Yogi
Author: Paramahansa YoganandaPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775411451
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
The autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952) details his search for a guru, during which he encountered many spiritual leaders and world-renowned scientists. When it was published in 1946 it was the first introduction of many westerners to yoga and meditation. The famous opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci said about the book: "Amazing, true stories of saints and masters of India, blended with priceless superphysical information-much needed to balance the Western material efficiency with Eastern spiritual efficiency-come from the vigorous pen of Paramhansa Yogananda, whose teachings my husband and myself have had the pleasure of studying for twenty years."