The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies) - Softcover

Couser, G. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367620812 ISBN 13: 9780367620813

Verlag: Routledge, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and there's life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.

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G. Thomas Couser received his doctorate in American Civilization at Brown University in 1977. After teaching English at Connecticut College, he moved on to Hofstra University, where he founded and directed a Disability Studies Program. From his dissertation on, his scholarship has been concerned with autobiography and memoir, especially with life writing stimulated by disability and illness and the ethics of life writing.

His academic books include Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (2009), and Memoir: An Introduction (2012). He has also published dozens of articles and book chapters.

In addition to scholarship, he has published personal essays in the Southwest Review, New Haven Review, and Hudson Review and Letter to My Father: A Memoir (2017).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367620812
• ISBN 13: 9780367620813
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206
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