Life writing matters in Europe
By: Marijke Huisman [... et al.], eds
Series: American studies -- v. 217; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 217.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783825359638
Subjects: Autobiography; European authors; European Authors; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : life writing matters in Europe / Marijke Huisman; title: European French-language life writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Catherine Viollet; title: Cultural models: Russian eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century francophone life writing / Elena Gretchanaia; title: Translation politics : foreign autobiographies on the nineteenth century Dutch book market / Marijke Huisman; title: Past, present, and future of autobiography competitions and archives in Poland / Paweł Rodak; title: Museums of the self: autobiographic memory and the cultural practice of collecting / Christian Moser; title: Voices and inscriptions: making sense(s) in autobiography / Sabine Kim; title: Changing identity formations in nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals' autobiographies / Nataliya Rodigina and Tatiana Saburova; title: A writer's life : the modernist group and questions of identity in autobiographical writing / Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir; title: Self and the city: locus of identity in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories and the city / Esra Almas; title: Construction of identity and the role of autobiography in V.S. Naipaul's work / Anna Izabela Cichón; title: Letter-writing and the construction of a transnational family: a private correspondence between the Netherlands and Germany, 1920; title: 1949 / Barbara Henkes; title: A Dutch collector with a German heart: the regional aspect of life writing in the case of Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) / Eva Rovers; title: Uses of biography: the Swedish version / Lisbeth Larsson; title: Well-behaved women seldom make history, but if they do; title: : reflections on gender and biography / Mineke Bosch; title: Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundtland: two women prime ministers from the spectre of a comparative biography / Anneke Ribberink; title: Constructing generational identity in post-communist autobiographies: the case of Latvia / Martins Kaprans; title: An anthology of lives: Jaan Kross's Kallid Kaasteelised and Estonian memorial culture / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar; title: Post-communist life writing and memory maps / Ioana Luca; title: Biographies; title: Index.