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About wishes and invitations: four meditations on life writing with Carl Leggo.
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Vitae Scholasticae
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January 1, 2006
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- Schwarz, Lorin
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I heard Carl Leggo speak at a conference last spring. In a crowded and neonlit lecture hall, the pony-tailed, jean-clad poet/professor took the podium and promised "performance instead of proof." For the next hour, he delivered amply on his declaration; in a frenetic and living concert of theory, reflection and poetry, Dr. Leggo moved around the room engaging each of us--sometimes personally--in a discussion speculating on biography, writing, and identity. For me, it was by far the most gregarious and unreserved keynote address of the conference--perhaps in the entire history of conferences. At one point, I felt a hand on my shoulder as he stopped behind me to read a poem. ...
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Rosalia Baena, ed.: Transculturing Auto/Biography: Forms of Life...
Biography;
March 22, 2008 ;
Kadar, Marlene;
787 words
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Annual bibliography of works about life writing, 2005-2006: edited...
Biography;
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Wachter, Phyllis E.;
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The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and...
Biography;
June 22, 2004 ;
McVicker, Jeanette;
787 words
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Confessions and transgressions: ethics and life writing.(An Ethics of Life...
The Hastings Center Report;
March 1, 2006 ;
Montello, Martha;
787 words
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The Ethics of Life Writing.(Book review)
Christianity and Literature;
January 1, 2006 ;
Ditmore, Michael G.;
787 words
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Life writing and science fiction: constructing identities and constructing...
Biography;
January 1, 2007 ;
Rieder, John;
787 words
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Biography;
January 1, 2007 ;
O'Gorman, Francis;
787 words
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German rediscovery of life writing: introduction to essays on...
Biography;
June 22, 2004 ;
Dawson, Ruth Maierhofer, Waltraud;
787 words
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Classes: 'Life writing' helps to put your life into words
Charleston Gazette;
January 22, 2003 ;
Amy Robinson;
533 words
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GENOME AND GENRE: DNA AND LIFE WRITING.(Critical Essay)
Biography;
January 1, 2001 ;
COUSER, G. THOMAS;
787 words
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Protocols, political correctness and discomfort zones: Indigenous life...
Hecate;
May 1, 2004 ;
McDonnell, Margaret;
787 words
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PAUL EAKIN TO DISCUSS LIFE WRITING AS PART OF UNCW BUCKNER LECTURE SERIES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
March 23, 2006 ;
376 words
......signing and reception. Eakin will discuss "life writing," - a class of literature in which people...others. In his latest book, The Ethics of Life Writing (Cornell UP, 2004), Eakin demonstrates...philosophy, he explores the potential of life writing both to humanize and to corrupt. ...
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SEMINAR ON 'LIFE-WRITING, SELF-FASHIONING' AT TU
The Hindustan Times;
February 26, 2008 ;
266 words
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Annual bibliography of works about life writing, 2000-2001.(Bibliography)
Biography;
September 22, 2001 ;
Wachter, Phyllis E. Schultz, William Todd;
787 words
......Process: Sources of Felice Picano's Life Writing: An Interview Based on Oral and Written...Languages) 7.1 (2000). South African Life Writing. Ed. Thengani H. Ngwenya. Ngwenya, Thengani...Addresses issues relating to collaborative life writing and to the production, collection, ...
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Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of...
Biography;
June 22, 2002 ;
Flint, Kate;
787 words
......Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999...Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. And the answer that she offers from...their position within the traditions of life writing. Acknowledging the important work ...
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