Author: E. S. Burt
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823230902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This work focuses on autothanatography, the writing of one's death. The study also argues that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to its death.
Regard for the Other
Author: E.S. Burt
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823230929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated representations of particular others and of the privileged other to whom a work is addressed, must therefore be set against an alterity plaguing the I from within or shadowing it from without. This alterity makes itself known in writing as the potential of the text to carry messages that remain secret to the confessing subject. Anticipation of the potential for the confessional text to say what Augustine calls "the secret I do not know," the secret of death, engages the autothanatographical subject in a dynamic, inventive, and open-ended process of identification. The subject presented in these texts is not one that has already evolved an interior life that it seeks to reveal to others, but one that speaks to us as still in process. Through its exorbitant response, it gives intimations of an interiority and an ethical existence to come. Baudelaire emerges as a central figure for this understanding of autobiography as autothanatography through his critique of the narcissism of a certain Rousseau, his translation of De Quincey's confessions, with their vertiginously ungrounded subject-in-construction, his artistic practice of self-conscious, thorough-going doubleness, and his service to Wilde as model for an aporetic secrecy. The author discusses the interruption of narrative that must be central to the writing of one's death and addresses the I's dealings with the aporias of such structuring principles as secrecy, Levinasian hospitality, or interiorization as translation. The book makes a strong intervention in the debate over one of the most-read genres of our time.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823230929
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Although much has been written on autobiography, the same cannot be said of autothanatography, the writing of one's death. This study starts from the deconstructive premise that autobiography is aporetic, not or not only a matter of a subject strategizing with language to produce an exemplary identity but a matter also of its responding to an exorbitant call to write its death. The I-dominated representations of particular others and of the privileged other to whom a work is addressed, must therefore be set against an alterity plaguing the I from within or shadowing it from without. This alterity makes itself known in writing as the potential of the text to carry messages that remain secret to the confessing subject. Anticipation of the potential for the confessional text to say what Augustine calls "the secret I do not know," the secret of death, engages the autothanatographical subject in a dynamic, inventive, and open-ended process of identification. The subject presented in these texts is not one that has already evolved an interior life that it seeks to reveal to others, but one that speaks to us as still in process. Through its exorbitant response, it gives intimations of an interiority and an ethical existence to come. Baudelaire emerges as a central figure for this understanding of autobiography as autothanatography through his critique of the narcissism of a certain Rousseau, his translation of De Quincey's confessions, with their vertiginously ungrounded subject-in-construction, his artistic practice of self-conscious, thorough-going doubleness, and his service to Wilde as model for an aporetic secrecy. The author discusses the interruption of narrative that must be central to the writing of one's death and addresses the I's dealings with the aporias of such structuring principles as secrecy, Levinasian hospitality, or interiorization as translation. The book makes a strong intervention in the debate over one of the most-read genres of our time.
Positive Regard
Author: Melvin Suhd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
What makes a certain person's life remarkable and influential? In the case of Carl Rogers, the revolutionary and widely published humanistic psychologist, this book offers several factors: his ideas, his way of relating to colleagues, friends, and family, and simply his way of being. Likewise, the eight other people featured here are notable for the same reasons. Connecting well with people is characteristic of each of them: Thomas Gordon -- Maureen O'Hara -- Ruth SanfordJohn Vasconcellos -- Art Combs -- David RogersNatalie Rogers -- Haruko TsugeInspired in part by knowing or studying with Carl Rogers, they have created their own ideas and ventures to help many others. Their stories make this a multiple biography: a mosaic of stories about people who helped change the world -- and the way we feel about ourselves.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
What makes a certain person's life remarkable and influential? In the case of Carl Rogers, the revolutionary and widely published humanistic psychologist, this book offers several factors: his ideas, his way of relating to colleagues, friends, and family, and simply his way of being. Likewise, the eight other people featured here are notable for the same reasons. Connecting well with people is characteristic of each of them: Thomas Gordon -- Maureen O'Hara -- Ruth SanfordJohn Vasconcellos -- Art Combs -- David RogersNatalie Rogers -- Haruko TsugeInspired in part by knowing or studying with Carl Rogers, they have created their own ideas and ventures to help many others. Their stories make this a multiple biography: a mosaic of stories about people who helped change the world -- and the way we feel about ourselves.
A Sense of Regard
Author: Laura McCullough
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347612
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How do poets engage issues of race? This timely collection of essays brings together the voices of living poets and scholars, including Garrett Hongo and Major Jackson, to discuss the constraints and possibilities of racial discourse in poetic language, offering new insights on this perennially vexed issue.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347612
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
How do poets engage issues of race? This timely collection of essays brings together the voices of living poets and scholars, including Garrett Hongo and Major Jackson, to discuss the constraints and possibilities of racial discourse in poetic language, offering new insights on this perennially vexed issue.
Without Regard to Race
Author: Tunde Adeleke
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A biographical reassessment of the racial activist and the way his views have been portrayed
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604732504
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A biographical reassessment of the racial activist and the way his views have been portrayed
Hearings Before the Committee on Territories in Regard to the Admission of Utah as a State
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Territories
Publisher:
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee of Congress in Regard to the Washington Aqueduct Tunnel
Author: United States. Washington Aqueduct Tunnel Committee
Publisher:
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Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Moral Self-regard
Author: Lara Denis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815339670
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815339670
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory.
A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, both with regard to sound and meaning ... To which is prefixed a prosodial grammar ... The second edition ... enlarged
Author: Thomas SHERIDAN (M.A., Teacher of Elocution.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound an Meaning. One Main Object of which Is, to Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation to which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar by Thomas Sheridan, A. M.
Author: Thomas Sheridan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Oversight Hearings with Regard to the Reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description