Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series
Author: Contemporary Authors
Author: Contemporary Authors Autobiography
Author: AndrewsPublisher: Contemporary Authors Autobiogr
ISBN: 9780787611422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Each of the 30 volumes in this series presents about 20 autobiographical essays written exclusively for the series, allowing your patrons to approach each author's life from a unique, highly personal vantage point. Varying in style and length (minimum 10,000 words) and international in scope, authors' essays are brimming with reflections and insights.A unique resource for studies on the memoir, each essay is illustrated with photographs supplied by the author and followed with a complete bibliographic listing of works. Every volume also provides a cumulative subject index to the more than 450 entrants in the series. Featured authors include:Diane AckermanGeorge BoweringDennis BrutusRita DoveHoward FastMichael GilbertLarry HeinemannGarrett HongoSandra McPhersonGerald VizenorAnne WaldmanElie WieselTobias WolffAnd many more(Note: this series has been discontinued, however new autobiographical essays will appear periodically in the Contemporary Authors series.)
Picturing Identity
Author: Hertha D. Sweet WongPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640716
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
Author: Tracey WatsonPublisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN: 9780787667283
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
Author: Scot PeacockPublisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN: 9780787646097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
Author: Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN: 9780787646073
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. MarcusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Differentials
Author: Marjorie PerloffPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817351280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Introduction: differential reading -- Crisis in the humanities? Reconfiguring literary study for the Twenty First Century -- Cunning passages and contrived corridors: rereading Eliot's "Gerontion" -- The search for "prime words": Pound, Duchamp, and the nominalist ethos -- "But isn't the same at least the same?" Wittgenstein on translation -- "Logocinema of the frontiersman" Eugene Jolas's multilingual poetics and its legacies -- "The silence that is not silence": acoustic art in Samuel Beckett's radio plays -- Language poetry and the lyric subject: Ron Silliman's Albany, Susan Howe's Buffalo -- After language poetry: innovation and its theoretical discontents -- The invention of "concrete prose": Haroldo de Campos's Galaxias and after -- Songs of the Earth: Ronald Johnson's Verbicovisuals -- THe Oulipo factor: The procedural poetics of Christian Bok and Caroline Bergvall -- Filling the space with trace: Tom Raworth's "Letters from Yaddo" -- Teaching the "new" poetries: the case of Rae Armantrout -- Writing poetry/writing about poetry: some problems of affiliation.
Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 volumes]
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Author: Yolanda Williams PagePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313049076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s. This book surveys the world of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. The Encyclopedia covers established contemporary authors such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, along with a range of neglected and emerging figures. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Literature students will value this book for its exploration of African American literature, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of social issues through literature. African American women writers have made an enormous contribution to our culture. Many of these authors wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, a particularly vital time in African American arts and letters, while others have been especially active since the 1970s, an era in which works by African American women are adapted into films and are widely read in book clubs. Literature by African American women is important for its aesthetic qualities, and it also illuminates the social issues which these authors have confronted. This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. Some of these figures, such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, are among the most popular authors writing today, while others have been largely neglected or are recently emerging. Each entry provides a biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers will welcome this guide to the rich achievement of African American women. Literature students will value its exploration of the works of these writers, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of the social issues these women confront in their works.