Critics often applaud rock autobiographies that go at least partially ' against type'.
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First, rock autobiographies typically disclose previously uncirculated or private stories from an ' insider' point of view.
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On a more general level, this book points to the perennial difficulties that confront historians who try to incorporate autobiographies in their studies.
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Indeed, this process shapes one of the criteria by which they judge rock autobiographies.
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Even where less tendentious autobiographies are involved, a lifetime's reading is a heterogeneous business that must often defy the powers of an autobiographer's memory.
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Her evidence is drawn from a huge variety of plays, letters, prose fictions, biographies, autobiographies, and journalism.
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However, a careful comparison of the two autobiographies, and of how the authors represent their teachers, can be a very instructive exercise.
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In other instances, women are portrayed in the autobiographies almost as an intrusion into the main narrative of the text.
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The value of these autobiographies may, quite often, lie in what they omit to mention.
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In this way, of course, the reviewing of rock autobiographies resembles the reviewing of rock music.
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The work simultaneously reinforced and negated the rhetoric of resistance and revolution espoused in the first two autobiographies, dulling its own effectiveness as a tool of social reform.
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Their data come from published autobiographies of highly literate immigrants that describe linguistic and psychological transformations as the immigrants adapt to new social and linguistic realities.
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In particular, we use evidence from a data set of household budgets originally collected over the course of the industrial revolution and supplement this with histories taken from working-class autobiographies.
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The study is divided into three sections dealing with autobiographies relevant to a general reading of photography, autobiographies that actually include photographs, and autobiographies of photographers.
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The comparison has also shown how autobiographies may act as a powerful social critique and an act of political resistance for marginalized communities in their own right.
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While examining some of these books and the critical judgements made about them, it may be helpful to look at academic work on autobiographies more generally.
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Under the encouragement of clerics, spiritual autobiographies and the lives they showcased also often circulated in manuscript or print for others to follow as spiritual models.
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We had a chance to do a lot of reading in the recess and read all the memoirs, diaries and autobiographies.
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I am looking forward to reading autobiographies as they emerge.
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There have been memoirs, autobiographies and similar works published.
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However, we need not go back into our autobiographies.
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Both films are considered to be autobiographies of the director.
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The books include biographies, autobiographies and nonfiction works by women.
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By the time of its publication in 1994, she had published five autobiographies, eventually going on to publish seven, and five books of poetry.
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Perhaps the only eyewitness reports of an event may be memoirs, autobiographies, or oral interviews taken years later.
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He continued to write for himself, including several autobiographies.
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She revealed this and other details of her life in her two autobiographies.
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Starting with a joyously witty pocket autobiography he ranges most lucidly through the scientific bases, thoughts and achievements of his subject...
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In the main, and in keeping with the underlying autobiography, these recordings were taken from my own performances or those of friends.
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Divided into thirty short chapters, the book is aptly described as 'a series of notes', jumping between performance analysis, critical reflection, travel writing, and autobiography.
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Publicity around the star's feistiness offstage lent the flavour of autobiography to the twice-daily action onstage.
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He also suggests implications of his ideas for the study of the genre of autobiography (300-5).
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Like most autobiographies, memoirs are written from the first-person point of view.
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At the heart of my exploration is this seemingly simple question: what constitutes a ' good' rock autobiography?
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None the less, some autobiography, biographical information, and description of experiences of participating in the work does balance the more academic essays.
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He had been an avid reader and collector of the autobiographies of renowned people.
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Throughout the autobiography, the narrator's voice continually cuts into the narrative, interpreting past events in light of the author's present political consciousness.
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The discrepancy relates to the incompatibility between patriarchal notions of feminity (discretion, self-effacement, and so on) and the exhibitionist nature of autobiography.
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Angelou examines many of the same subjects and themes that her previous autobiographies covered.
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Which is in essence how taxonomic autobiography could work, a process of witnessing which names the subject into objective being.
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Because so many autobiographies were written, they began to fall into a predictable pattern.
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In addition, he produced two ghostwritten autobiographies, but generally avoided self-publicity or controversy.
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In these books, as well as in more general theorizing, the perennial questions of autobiography theory were debated and re-debated.
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In addition to the many autobiographies which discuss him, he is a hero in various works of fiction.
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She has released two autobiographies, four diet books, and a book of poetry.
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Autobiographies became more popular, as with the rise of education and cheap printing, modern concepts of fame and celebrity began to develop.
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In late life, she recalled her conquests in her autobiographies.
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Vecsey is best known for his work in sports, but has co-written several autobiographies with non-sports figures.
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They are mostly interested in introspection and autobiographies.
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Angelou explores many of the same themes throughout all her writings, in both her autobiographies and poetry.
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Her poems continue the themes of mild protest and survival also found in her autobiographies, and inject hope through humor.
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She wrote thirteen published plays, five unpublished, several autobiographies, a novella and a short story.
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During this period literature (more specifically histories, biographies, autobiographies, geographies) were called praise(s).
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She has also written autobiographies and short story collections.
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He was author of autobiographies, poems, scripts and educational projects until the 80s when he principally narrowed down his interests to peace research and education.
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Ltd., which specialized in war and theatrical memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and tales of hauntings.
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Written with sagacious eloquence and gentle humor, this work stands strong in the ranks of authors' memoirs and autobiographies.
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Angelou recognizes that there are fictional aspects to all her books, which differentiate her work from more traditional truthful autobiographies.
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Unlike autobiographies, broad celebrity is less important than relevance to a small social circle or to oneself.
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She later wrote advice books and co-authored several celebrity autobiographies.
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In the wake of the popular poison woman literature, confessional autobiographies by female criminals had begun appearing in the late 1890s.
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Each author also uses a variety of sources to reconstruct these histories : oral narratives, colonial diaries and that rare documentary source, the autobiography.
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As sketchy and evasive as this autobiography is on major issues, it nonetheless raises crucial historical questions.
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Could you expand on this, on the analysis of power in heritage management and on autobiography?
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The introductory chapter is dedicated to general epistemological problems : what is the difference between autobiography and autobiographical ?
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According to, it is one of the world's great autobiographies.
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The book reads at turns like a novel, an autobiography, a historical work and a cultural analysis of a musical movement.
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In the performance of autobiography, the always already fictional nature of the autobiographical mode is made explicit.
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His work includes poetry and essays on a wide range of subjects, as well as autobiographies and novels.
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He was one of the first sociologists to begin analyzing personal documents such as letters, autobiographies, diaries, and the like.
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The same year, he penned the first of several autobiographies.
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Examining this beata, holy woman, he stresses how, although her autobiography is unspeci®c about place, her life was appropriated by the city council.
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His autobiography will appear this autumn and will give much more insight into his life than this brief note can.
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As a well-researched cultural study, it is also typical in using the con_icts represented in autobiography as straightforward evidence for the cultural situations of women.
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As the autobiography of a well-known seed scientist, this book will arouse the interest of many readers of this journal.
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Their written forms, like autobiographies, biographies, and interviews, make up a large part of contemporary western feminist literature.
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The number of autobiographies by women is actually quite small in proportion to their output of novels.
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I have therefore sought to identify patterns within a heterogeneous body of sources on scholars' lives - normative blueprints, anecdotes, correspondence, and autobiographies.
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Of course making evaluative comments about a song typically employs what we think of as musical judgements, while evaluations of autobiographies highlight literary judgements.
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They show too how music becomes part of the routine realities of the world depicted through fiction, and how musical lives are constructed in autobiographies.
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His sources are, primarily, published funeral sermons for godly women, and women's own spiritual autobiographies and accounts of their private devotions.
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Each tried in his own way to realize autobiography's varied, often conflicting aims: historical accuracy, literary artistry, psychological verisimilitude.
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Similarly, autobiographies may be idealized, though private letters and diaries are likely to be genuine enough.
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The reversal of sense (of common sense) works by cultivating the force of that weakness (this will also be the secret of autobiography's strength).
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She also compares the autobiographies of the first immigrants with those of the ones who are writing now.
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Such treatment of the diary is methodologically consistent with prevalent academic practice that regards personal narratives and autobiographies as sources for social history.
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