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Autobiography of Mark Twain
The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life’s work of America's favorite author. This Reader's Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain's ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2—a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine.
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Still just a geek : an annotated memoir
The celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd revisits his 2004 collection of insightful and humorous blog posts, presents additional later writings, and offers all new material in which he opens up about his life, from his abusive childhood to finding his true purpose.
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Haunted Narratives
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts,Haunted Narrativesprovides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories.
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Anne Clifford's autobiographical writing, 1590–1676
Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All told in rich detail amidst the backdrop of daily life.
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Impaired coherence of life narratives of patients with schizophrenia
Self-narratives of patients have received increasing interest in schizophrenia since they offer unique material to study patients’ subjective experience related to their illness, in particular the alteration of self that accompanies schizophrenia. In this study, we investigated the life narratives and the ability to integrate and bind memories of personal events into a coherent narrative in 27 patients with schizophrenia and 26 controls. Four aspects of life narratives were analyzed: coherence with cultural concept of biography, temporal coherence, causal-motivational coherence and thematic coherence. Results showed that in patients cultural biographical knowledge is preserved, whereas temporal coherence is partially impaired. Furthermore, causal-motivational and thematic coherence are significantly impaired: patients have difficulties explaining how events have modeled their identity and integrating different events along thematic lines. Impairment of global causal-motivational and thematic coherence was significantly correlated with patients’ executive dysfunction, suggesting that cognitive impairment observed in patients could affect their ability to construct a coherent narrative of their life by binding important events to their self. This study provides new understanding of the cognitive deficits underlying self-disorders in patients with schizophrenia. Our findings suggest the potential usefulness of developing new therapeutic interventions to improve autobiographical reasoning skills.
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Tracing the autobiographical
The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes and murmurs as well as authoritative declarations. They also watch for the appearance of auto/biography in unexpected places, tracing patterns from materials that have been left behind. Many of the essays return to the question of text or traces of text, demonstrating that the language of autobiography, as well as the textualized identities of individual persons, can be traced in multiple media and sometimes unlikely documents, each of which requires close textual examination. These \"unlikely documents\" include a deportation list, an art exhibit, reality TV, Web sites and chat rooms, architectural spaces, and government memos, as well as the more familiar literary genres—a play, the long poem, or the short story. Interdisciplinary in scope and contemporary in outlook, Tracing the Autobiographical is a welcome addition to autobiography scholarship, focusing on non-traditional genres and on the importance of location and place in life writing. Read the chapter \"Gender, Nation, and Self-Narration: Three Generations of Dayan Women in Palestine/Israel\" [http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/6559/] by Bina Freiwald on the Concordia University Library Spectrum Research Repository [http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/6559/] website.
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The usage of family audiobooks as a legacy for grieving children — an exploratory quantitative analysis among terminally ill parents and close persons
Background
Since 2017, terminally ill parents with dependent children under the age of 18 have been able to record an audiobook for their dependent children. This service allows them to narrate how they would like to be remembered in their voice. The family audiobook is a professionally supported, voluntary, free service that is unique in Germany. There is little research on digital memories for children. The study aims to understand how this service is used and its influence on children through responses of terminally ill parents and close persons.
Methods
An anonymous online survey, accessible between September 2023 and November 2023, was conducted among terminally ill parents and their close persons with support from the Family Audiobook Association in Germany. Analyses were carried out using SPSS.
Results
186 respondents, 95 terminally ill parents, and 91 close persons completed the online survey. Almost all terminally ill parents felt eased to have recorded a family audiobook. The two groups showed differences in how they used the family audiobook and how often they listened to it. While some children listen to the family audiobook with their bereaved parents or friends, other children are not yet ready for this, according to the open-ended responses of terminally ill parents and close persons.
Conclusions
The family audiobook provides a valuable opportunity for terminally ill parents with dependent children under the age of 18 to tell their own biographical story, offer support to the bereaved in remembering, and preserve the voice of the deceased for the children. In addition, this approach could help healthcare professionals to reduce the stress associated with providing end-of-life care for terminally ill parents.
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Literary genres. Episode 1, Autobiography and memoir
Autobiographies and memoirs are similar – but each is a distinct nonfiction literary genre. Here we discover what they share in common and why true stories about people's lives remain popular for readers across the globe.
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Centenaire de Mario Robbe-Grillet. Échanges avec Alain Bellatin
This month of August 2022 we commemo- rate the hundredth anniversary of Alain Rob- be-Grillet’s birth. On this occasion the present article focusses on his reception in Latin Ame- rica, examining more particularly, though not exclusively, his relationship with Mario Bel- latin (Mexico City 1960). It explores the three principal topics that were dealt with during the public dialogue the two writers held on 22 Sep- tember 2006, in an auditorium of the Tecnoló- gico de Monterrey, in Mexico: first, science; second, the nouveau roman and the nouvelle autotobiographie; and third, Robbe-Grillet’s Latin American literary heritage. It also shows how Bellatin reappropriates some of the decla- rations Robbe-Grillet made that day in “En el ropero del señor Bernard falta el traje que más detesta” (2013), a short story where he pays tribute to his then deceased French counterpart, and assumes in person the latter’s identity.
Conmemoramos en este mes de agosto de 2022 los cien años del nacimiento de Alain Robbe-Grillet. Con este motivo el presente artículo se propone volver sobre su recepción en América Latina, examinando más particu- lar, aunque no exclusivamente, su relación con Mario Bellatin (Ciudad de México 1960). En él se exploran los tres principales temas que fue- ron abordados por los dos escritores durante su diálogo público del 22 de septiembre de 2006 en un auditorio del Tecnológico de Monterrey, en México: en primer lugar, la ciencia; en se- gundo lugar, el nouveau roman y la nouvelle autobiographie; y en tercer lugar, la herencia literaria latinoamericana de Robbe-Grillet. Se muestra asimismo cómo Bellatin recuperó ciertas declaraciones hechas por Robbe-Grillet aquel día en “En el ropero del señor Bernard falta el traje que más detesta” (2013), un relato donde rinde homenaje a su homólogo francés entretanto fallecido, y reviste en persona la identidad de este último.
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