Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A ReaderDiane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey Duke University Press, 2003 - 487 páginas Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, anthropology, religion, and biology. Pioneers in the development of the hybrid genre of personal scholarship, the writers whose work is presented here challenge traditional modes of inquiry and ways of knowing. In assembling their work, editors Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey have provided a rich source of reasons for and models of autobiographical criticism. The editors’ introduction presents a condensed history of academic writing, chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism, and emphasizes the role of feminism in championing the value of personal narrative to disciplinary discourse. The essays are all explicitly informed by the identities of their authors, among whom are a feminist scientist, a Jewish filmmaker living in Germany, a potential carrier of Huntington’s disease, and a doctor pregnant while in medical school. Whether describing how being a professor of ethnic literature necessarily entails being an activist, how music and cooking are related, or how a theology is shaped by cultural identity, the contributors illuminate the relationship between their scholarly pursuits and personal lives and, in the process, expand the boundaries of their disciplines. Contributors: Kwame Anthony Appiah |
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... natural sciences . They have consciously blurred the illusory line between " hard " and " soft " disciplines . And they have selected forms of first - person writing that are diverse and compelling , never predictable , and at times ...
... nature without , at the same time , speaking about ourselves . -Fritjof Capra , The Tao of Physics WHY THIS BOOK ? In the wake of our book The Intimate Critique : Autobiographical Literary Criti- cism ( Duke , 1993 ) , we continued to ...
... natural , human , organic ways . In these selections we meet a musician who cooks , a mathematician with in- sights into children's play , a theologian with a historian's eye . We retain the categories we do for convenience and because ...
... nature writer to essays steeped in a sense of place . Olivia is likewise drawn to writing about actual landscapes , whether the sand , limestone , and marl of South Florida where she grew up or the snow of Minnesota , where she now ...
... nature , such phrases / modality reach toward what might be called a " modest objectivity . " As many of our contributors themselves state or imply , as well as many of our previously cited sources , objectivity itself means the ...
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SelfInclusion and SelfInscription | 41 |
East Texas Cockfighting and Hamlet | 68 |
Three Readings of the Wife of Bath | 85 |
My Sightless Insights into Yeatss Plays | 96 |
Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor | 114 |
Following the Voice of the Draft | 129 |
Reflections on Identity and Writing | 138 |
Tribute to Robert D Marcus | 159 |
Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre | 281 |
Filming Point of View | 292 |
From The Broken Cord | 311 |
Juban America | 331 |
The Reflections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist | 349 |
The Death of the Profane a commentary on the genre of legal writing | 365 |
English Education Politics and Status | 375 |
Adventures of a Woman in Science | 397 |
History | 161 |
From God of the Oppressed | 189 |
Extending a Hand across the Abyss | 205 |
Maternal Thinking | 216 |
Altered States | 233 |
History of an Encounter | 257 |
Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks | 265 |
A Feminists Life in Biology | 417 |
An Introduction | 435 |
A Textbook Pregnancy | 444 |
Personal Thinking | 455 |
Selected Bibliography | 467 |
Contributors | 483 |
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| Título | Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines: A Reader |
| Editores | Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Duke University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0822332132, 9780822332138 |
| Largo | 487 páginas |
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