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Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and Biography

By Johanna Hanink (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781107159082 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 4, 2016, cover price $99.99

The Art of Memoir

By Mary Karr

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Hardcover:

9780062223067 | Harpercollins, September 15, 2015, cover price $24.99

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9780062223074 | Perennial, September 6, 2016, cover price $15.99

9780416326604, titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" | Routledge, January 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | also contains Psychoanalytic Criticism

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504648400 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2015), cover price $29.99

The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir

By Patty Dann

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9781611802887 | Shambhala Pubns, August 23, 2016, cover price $16.95

Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization

Product Description: Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies...read more

By Kristoffel Demoen

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9781107129122 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 6, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally.

Achieving Autobiographical Form: A Twentieth Century Perspective

Product Description: In "Achieving Autobiographical Form" Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone. Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self s immersion in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world...read more

By Nicholas Meihuizen

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9789004311039 | Rodopi Bv Editions, February 4, 2016, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: In "Achieving Autobiographical Form" Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone.

A History of English Autobiography

Product Description: A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiography...read more

By Adam Smyth (editor)

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9781107078413 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 7, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.

Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues

Product Description: Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs, exploring how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives. It pays particular attention to the interplay of the virtues, including their interplay with additional (non-moral) types of values in good lives...read more

By Mike W. Martin

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9781498533652 | Lexington Books, February 10, 2016, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues is a philosophical study of moral themes in memoirs, exploring how memoirists present and defend perspectives on good lives.

Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (And Others) in the Name of Literature

By Meredith Maran (editor)

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9780142181973 | Plume, January 26, 2016, cover price $16.00

Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the BrontÃ«s

Product Description: The biographer Winifred GÃ©rin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four BrontÃ« siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a BrontÃ« enthusiast twenty years her junior...read more

By Helen Macewan

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9781845197438, titled "Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the BrontÃ«s" | Sussex Academic Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The biographer Winifred GÃ©rin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four BrontÃ« siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband.

The Routledge Autobiography Studies Reader

By Ricia Anne Chansky (editor) and Emily Hipchen (editor)

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9781138904781 | Routledge, November 10, 2015, cover price $56.95

The Routledge Auto biography Studies Reader

By Emily Hipchen (editor)

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9781138904767, titled "The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader" | Routledge, November 23, 2015, cover price $155.00

The Art of Memoir: Library Edition

Product Description: In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black-belt sinner," providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre...read more

By Mary Karr

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9781504648394 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2015), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black-belt sinner," providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in the genre.

Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography

Product Description: Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together...read more

By Michael Benton

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9781137549570 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 7, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.

On Point: A Guide to Writing the Military Story

Product Description: Personal writing can be risky for anyone, but for military veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress, sharing stories can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks. Writing is also risky for the ego. It is one thing to write a military story, especially one based on authentic experiences; it is quite another to muster the courage to share that story with others for critique and feedback...read more

By Tracy Crow

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9781612347097 | Potomac Books Inc, September 1, 2015, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Personal writing can be risky for anyone, but for military veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress, sharing stories can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks.

Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe

Product Description: This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts...read more

By Simona Mitroiu (editor)

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9781137485519 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 26, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past.

Narratives of the Self

By Joanna Malicka (editor)

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9783631651698 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 26, 2015, cover price $52.95

Creating Comics As Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction

By David Stoddard

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9780415730075, titled "Creating Comics As Journalism, Memoir, and Nonfiction" | Routledge, November 2, 2015, cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9780415730082, titled "Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir, and Nonfiction" | Routledge, October 20, 2015, cover price $49.95

The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography

Product Description: In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf...read more

By Scott Donaldson

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9780271065274 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate.

9780271065281 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, March 3, 2015, cover price $39.95

Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities

Product Description: Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography...read more

By Kate Hill (editor)

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9781843837275 | Boydell Pr, July 19, 2012, cover price $99.00

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9781843839613 | Reprint edition (Boydell Pr, October 16, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives.

Your Life Is a Book: How to Craft and Publish Your Memoir

Product Description: Whether you're writing your memoir for self-exploration, to leave a legacy, or for publication, Your Life Is A Book takes you on a step-by-step journey from concept to completion. This writer's guide to the memoir is rich with insight, advice, storytelling, and encouragement...read more

By Sarah Jane Freymann

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9781570619304 | Sasquatch Books, October 14, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Whether you're writing your memoir for self-exploration, to leave a legacy, or for publication, Your Life Is A Book takes you on a step-by-step journey from concept to completion.

Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing

Product Description: Biography has been disregarded as less important although it is one of the most popular historiographical genres. This theoretical work on the topic of biography argues that the topic needs to be researched properly, and fills a gap in the literature by theoretically discussing it in its contemporary forms...read more

By Binne De Haan (editor)

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9780773440920 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 28, 2013, cover price $169.95 | About this edition: Biography has been disregarded as less important although it is one of the most popular historiographical genres.

Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives

By Nicole Stamant

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9781137410320 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 25, 2014, cover price $95.00

Strategies of Representation in Auto/Biography: Reconstructing and Remembering

Product Description: This book investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographies in African literary discourse and examines how this relates to issues of identity, nation and history.

By Kgomotso Masemola (editor)

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9781137340320 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 14, 2014, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographies in African literary discourse and examines how this relates to issues of identity, nation and history.

Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing: Augmented Edition

Product Description: Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives...read more

By Binne De Haan (editor), Nigel Hamilton (foreword by) and Hans Renders (editor)

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9789004270145 | Revised edition (Brill Academic Pub, April 17, 2014), cover price $128.00 | About this edition: Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies.

The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

By Andrew Quintman

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9780231164146, titled "The Yogin & the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa" | Columbia Univ Pr, November 5, 2013, cover price $105.00

Paperback:

9780231164153, titled "The Yogin & the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa" | Columbia Univ Pr, November 5, 2013, cover price $36.00

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