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Title The ethics of life writing / edited by Paul John Eakin.

Imprint Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174.992 Et37 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 271 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mapping the ethics of life writing / Paul John Eakin -- Arguing with life stories: the case of Rigoberta Menchu / Paul Lauritzen -- Misremembering Ted Hughes / Diane Middlebrook -- Life writing as narrative of the good: Father and son and the ethics of authenticity / David Parker -- Judging and not judging parents / John D. Barbour -- Friendship, fiction, and memoir: trust and betrayal in writing from one's own life / Claudia Mills -- Decent and indecent: writing my father's life / Richard Freadman -- The ethics of betrayal: diary of a memoirist / Nancy K. Miller -- Mapping lives: "truth," life writing, and DNA / Alice Wexler -- Moral non-fiction: life writing and children's disability / Arthur W. Frank -- When life writing becomes death writing: disability and the ethics of parental euthanography / G. Thomas Couser -- Tales of consent and descent: life writing as a fight against an imposed self-image / Marianne Gullestad.
Subject Autobiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Added Author Eakin, Paul John.
ISBN 0801441285 (alk. paper)
9780801441288 (alk. paper)
0801488338 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801488337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2057910
YDXCP 2057909
NZ1 8056554
AU@ 000025096385
ZWZ 131918575
UNITY 056869061
HEBIS 121205479
UKCLM 0801441285
UKCLM 0801488338
GEBAY 7287019
DEBSZ 259407003
DEBBG BV019321441

 
    
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