The Ethics of Life Writing
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, 2004
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- The Ethics of Life Writing
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- Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 2004
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- Good
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- paperback
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- English
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- 0801488338
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A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are commanding attention in many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology, history, journalism, medicine, and psychology, as well as literary studies. Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm?
The eleven essays in this collection explore such questions. They focus chiefly on autobiography and biography, but their findings apply to all "life writing"―the entire class of literature in which people tell life stories. Their forms include case studies, diaries, ethnographies, interviews, and profiles. The essays are enhanced by an introduction that provides an overview of the volume, including a section on life writing vis-à-vis privacy and the law, and an afterword that looks at the essays in relation to one another.
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About the Author
Paul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, also from Cornell, The New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells, and James, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography. He is the editor of On Autobiography by Philippe Lejeune and American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.
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