AUTOBIOGRAPHY

PHILWEB:
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES
OFF- AND ON-LINE

GENERAL HISTORY REGIONS TOPICS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
LIFE-WRITING
REPRESENTING THE SELF

ASSOCIATIONS

International Auto/Biography Association

CONFERENCES

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2006:

Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: the Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 15-17
Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Macquarie University, March 30-April 1

2005:

Narrative and Understanding Persons, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, July 12-14
Storytelling and Cultural Identity, Congresso Internacional de Narrativa Oral e de Identidade Cultural, Terceira, Azores (Portugal), June 27-29

2004:

Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti)Global Age, Fourth International Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 15-20

2003:

Identity, Narrative, and Truth in Biography and Autobiography, Forum for European Philosophy, New Theatre, LSE East Building, October 18
Autobiografictions, Goldsmiths College, University of London, September 8-9
Writing Lives: the Past and Future of Biography, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, April 10
The Poetics of the Subject, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches du Monde Anglophone, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), March 28-29

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COURSES

University of Arizona:
- Autobiography I (Crane)
- Autobiography II (Crane)
University of Canterbury: Autobiography and the Representation of the Self
University of East Anglia:
- Autobiography (Hughes)
- Biography (Hughes)
- Life Writing: Theory into Practice (Hughes)

JOURNALS

PERSONS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Epstein, William H., ed. Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism. Ashland, OH: Purdue UP, 1991
- Olney, James, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
- Zinzer, William, ed. Inventing the Truth: the Art and Craft of Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Selected Individual Works:
- Bruss, Elizabeth. Autobiographical Acts: the Changing Situation of a Literary Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976.
- Carroll, David. The Subject in Question: the Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.
- Cascardi, Anthony J. The Subject of Modernity. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.
- Cascardi, Anthony J. The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.
- Corngold, Stanley. The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.
- Donskis, Leonidas. Forms of Hatred: the Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
- Eakin, Paul. Touching the World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
- Eakin, Paul. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.
- Freccero, John. "Autobiography and Narrative." Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality and the Self in Western Thought. ed. Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellbery. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1986. 16-29.
- Gusdorf, Georges. "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography." Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. 29-48.
- Jay, Paul. The Question of Being: Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.
- Kerby, A. Narrative and the Self. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
- Lejeune, Philippe. Le Pacte autobiographique. Paris: Seuil, 1975.
  - On Autobiography. Trans. Katherine Leary. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.
- Lloyd, Genvieve. Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature. London: Routledge, 1993.
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth Century England. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1976.
- Sprinker, Michael. "Fictions of the Self: the End of Autobiography." Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. 321-342.
- Starobinskyi, Jean. "The Style of Autobiography." Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980. 73-83.