Susanna Egan (60 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. VG, light shelfwear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Canadian First. Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with a few black and white photographs. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Text clean and solid; Life Writing; 8.90 X 5.90 X 0.60 inches; 210 pages.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Condition: 'Fine. As new' Notes: Variety of interdisciplinary essays.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780807847824.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New. Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. In the process, they tell us a lot about cultural norms and anxieties. Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography examines a broad range of impostures in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and asks about each one: Why this particular imposture? Why here and now? Susanna Egan's historical survey of texts from early Christendom to the nineteenth century provides an understanding of the author in relation to the text and shows how plagiarism and other false claims have not always been regarded as the frauds we consider them today. She then explores the role of the media in the creation of much contemporary imposture, examining in particular the cases of Jumana Hanna, Norma Khouri, and James Frey. The book also addresses ethnic imposture, deliberate fictions, plagiarism, and ghostwriting, all of which raise moral, legal, historical, and cultural issues. Egan concludes the volume with an examination of how historiography and law failed to support the identities of European Jews during World War II, creating sufficient instability in Jewish identity and doubt about Jewish wartime experience that the impostor could step in. This textual erasure of the Jews of Europe and the refashioning of their experiences in fraudulent texts are examples of imposture as an outcrop of extreme identity crisis. The first to examine these issues in North America and Europe, Burdens of Proof will be of interest to scholars of life writing and cultural studies.…

Condition: New. 2011. Paperback. Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. This book examines a range of impostures in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Num Pages: 210 pages, figures. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310. . . . . .…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780807847824. …

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780807847824.

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Condition: New. 2011. Paperback. Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. This book examines a range of impostures in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Num Pages: 210 pages, figures. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0807815810.…

Condition: New. In English.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Traditional autobiography tends to originate in some form of crisis and to develop some form of resolution. In contrast, much contemporary autobiography deals with unresolved crises and cannot even assume authoritative, first-person narration. Susanna Egan finds such autobiographies dialogic in form, involving the reader in generic experimentation in their pursuit of shifting, uncertain meanings. After tracing the literary experimentation of contemporary genres to the inventiveness of modernism, she explores the generic contributions of drama, film, quilting, comics, and blended literary forms to changing genres of autobiography. Egan identifies lived crises--such as diaspora, genocide, and terminal illness--as the forces behind generic experimentation, suggesting dynamic intersections between trauma and cultural expression. Mirror Talk examines work by a wide range of autobiographers, including Primo Levi, Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, Michael Ondaatje, Tom Joslin, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee, Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum, Breyten Breytenbach, Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mary Meigs, Dennis Potter, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. Focusing on crisis as revealed in autobiographical works, Susanna Egan shows how the individual's experience sets in motion a separation of the self into objective and subjective entities that become the basis of the narrative.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.48 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.