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Editors' note.
Sep 22, 2008 ... This year's installment of the Annual Bibliography continues, with some fluctuations, to display the patterns we've seen over the past few years in the publication of critical and theoretical work on life writing. First of all, the sheer number of entries has again increased--from roughly ...
My Father and Myself: J. R. Ackerley's marginal modernist Kunstlerroman.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... MODERNISM AND THE KUNSTLERROMAN "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead." With these words, Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, addresses Daedalus, the mythical artist, and his father, Simon Dedalus. ...
Owning memory: Elizabeth Bishop's authorial restraint.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre>My grandfather said to meas we sat on the wagon seat, "Be sure to remember to alwaysspeak to everyone you meet. " </Pre> Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Manners," begins with the first-person speaker recounting a piece of advice given by her grandfather as they ...
Annual bibliography of works about life writing, 2007-2008.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Social negotiation and the ideal of unanimity-the ideal of a more perfect justice and union not actually ever achieved-exist with and even constitute the perfectionism of the individual self or the particular nation in its public articulation, the individual self and the particular nation ...
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Cambridge University Press, June 2006. <http://orlando.cambridge.org>. August 20, 2008. (1) Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the ...