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  Autobiographical novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An autobiographical novel is a novel based on the life of the author.
Kenneth Rexroth, An Autobiographical Novel (1966), The title was suggested by the original publisher to reduce the risk of libel suits.
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, a mock autobiography of Stein's secretary and companion, purporting to be Toklas's views of Stein.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autobiographical_novel   (601 words)

  
 Dear diary revisited
Autobiographers of the early twenty-first century who choose to work with their diaries might turn not to personal archives that have evaded public inspection, as Gibson and Green have, but to entries they have posted online for the world to view.
Autobiographical narrators, whatever their stories, often connect with others in new ways as well, especially when their stories resonate with the stories of people in a compatible group or "a community of secret knowers" (15).
The autobiographical writing enables hooks to recapture the fl culture of her youth and in her mind to rescue the girl she once was.
www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1201/ezfr13a.htm   (13253 words)

  
 Tracey Emin - The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Paradoxically, the autobiographical is a conspicuous staging arena for the public world, if one with a foot lingering in the intimate bed of the personal.
As he summarizes the range of autobiographical excesses that have haunted the genre's practitioners — a propensity for exaggeration and lying, a lack of unique experience — we are reminded that he also has the good fortune to be under contract for what others must suffer silently.
The autobiographical pact implies that writers seek to maintain a sincere and responsible relationship to their audiences and to the ethical imperatives of that relationship.
www.egs.edu /faculty/emin/emin-the-rumpled-bed-of-autobiography.html   (5723 words)

  
 Autobiographical ebooks (e-books) links
This autobiographical account by a former slave is one of the few extant narratives written by a woman.
The autobiographical story of Robert Louis Stevenson with his new bride in 1880 on their 'honeymoon' in the American west.
An autobiographical vindication of the policy of the Buchanan administration during the last months of his term, this book is an important source for understanding the political events leading to the secession and the Civil War.
www.hopcottebooks.com /ebooks/autobiographical.html   (3316 words)

  
 RE-CREATING CREATORS: TEACHING STUDENTS TO EDIT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Furthermore, autobiographical materials are intellectually and psychologically accessible to students who lack specialized knowledge or experience with research in primary materials, as do many freshmen who might initially find editing totally new and foreign.
Above all, the autobiographical materials must interest the potential editor, whose job it will be to transmute the lifeless pieces of paper into a dynamic entity whose appeal is as evident to the outside readers as it is to the editor.
So students might appropriately look for autobiographical writings about people whose lives reflect their own interests or aspirations: students athletes could search for sportsmen and women, the politically-minded could look for governmental figures, descendants could seek their ancestors.
jac.gsu.edu /jac/3/Articles/14.htm   (5096 words)

  
 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research: Gender differences in vivid memories - autobiographical memory and self identity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Autobiographical memory is the storage and retrieval of information about the rememberer (Baddeley, 1992).
In these studies, women typically focused their autobiographical narratives on affiliative themes, whereas a majority of the men's autobiographical memories focused on experiences related to mastery and performance.
The paucity of research on possible gender differences in vivid autobiographical memories is understandable, for gender differences are not readily apparent in other domains of human memory.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2294/is_7-8_49/ai_109355376   (1169 words)

  
 Autobiographical masterpiece links US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Wordsworth’s autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude, or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind was written between 1798 and 1805.
This masterpiece of literature is a fascinating account of the pains and pleasures of opium as well as an autobiographical account of his youth.
Autobiographical masterpiece links US or references to the subject of autobiographical...
masterpieceus.ronniebou.com /masterpiece/autobiographical.html   (368 words)

  
 Autobiographical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The term, "autobiographical memory" refers to a person’s knowledge of the events he or she has experienced.
McNally, Lasko, Macklin, and Pitman conducted an experiment in which 19 Vietnam combat veterans with PTSD and 13 without PTSD were tested on their autobiographical memory retrieval in response to cue words (McNally et al., 1995).
As a side observation, the experimenters noticed that those veterans who had the most difficulty retrieving memories were the same men who wore Vietnam regalia to the experiment, suggesting an ongoing reliving of the past by these participants.
web.uccs.edu /awillia3/autobio.htm   (581 words)

  
 Some Uses of Autobiography:  Private Writing in Public Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The major aim of autobiographical assignments in the composition classroom ought to be expressive.
It is not appropriate, however, to assess students on this autobiographical involvement or lack of it.
Thus, autobiographical early drafts can help students make the transition from personal writing to analytic and expository modes and even, finally, to that most difficult form of all, autobiography as a literary genre.
jac.gsu.edu /jac/5.1/Articles/11.htm   (2438 words)

  
 Night Shade Books Discussion Area: Chris
Presenting autobiographical elements as character, I guess, means creating an evidence trail that doesn't simply point back to the author - whether you're writing mainstream of spec fic.
The nice thing about using autobiographical details in my fiction is that my family can now play a kind of parlor game of trying to figure out what's what.
Autobiographical materials are always tinged with speculation and conjecture.
www.nightshadebooks.com /discus/messages/177/275.html   (6614 words)

  
 Excerpt, Rugg, Picturing Ourselves
I was first inspired to study parallels between photographic and autobiographical self-imaging while studying the work of Mark Twain, whose staging of over 500 individual photographic self-images propelled him into the visual and cultural awareness of people throughout the world, allowing him to overcome through photography the limitations imposed on texts by difficulties of translation.
The autobiographer, in writing of his or her own life, also stands apart from the self, tries to envision and read the self from a vantage distanced by the passage of time.
The photographic situation, then, offers the autobiographer a representational image for the autobiographical act of looking at oneself, as well as a metaphor for the intrusive act of reading and interpreting that takes place after the publication of the autobiography.
www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/731472.html   (3763 words)

  
 Autobiographical film links UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Autobiographical film which tells the story of director Ron Peck's efforts to make the film 'Night Hawks II', which revolves around a young man trying to form relationships in the gay world.
DVD Certificate: (15) Release Date: 18/11/02 Based on the autobiographical trilogy of New Zealand's Janet Frame, the film follows her through her childhood and her growing fascination with literature, her student days and her life as an internationally successful writer.
Autobiographical film links UK or references to the subject of autobiographical...
filmuk.dunmarsh.co.uk /film/autobiographical.html   (990 words)

  
 autobiographical memory
Emotions, the "facts" that describe you and make you unique, the facts of your life, and the experiences you have had, are all contained in separate domains, and processed differently.
Most events in our lives are routine, and are merged in memory into one generic memory containing the common elements of the experience.
Barsalou, L.W. The content and organization of autobiographical memories.
www.memory-key.com /EverydayMemory/autobiographical_memory.htm   (816 words)

  
 UW Press - : The Autobiographical Documentary in America
Though the documentary form is most often used to capture the lives of others, Jim Lane turns his lens on those media makers who document their own lives and identities.
"The autobiographical documentary is one of the most significant paths taken by American filmmakers in recent years, and Jim Lane is the ideal person to take on this important subject.
A scrupulous film historian with a sophisticated grasp of the theoretical issues raised and addressed by autobiographical documentary films, he is also a gifted filmmaker personally committed to the movement he is studying.
www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/3214.htm   (413 words)

  
 Autobiographical Comics
Visiting artist, Heather McAdams, developed the Autobiographical Comic Strip project for the University of Illinois at Chicago Contemporary Community Curriculum Initiative 2000.
In this project, students and teachers create autobiographical comics that explore some interesting moments in their lives.
Autobiographical comics are a great way to introduce the art curriculum to the larger community.
www.uic.edu /classes/ad/ad382/sites/Projects/P009/P009_first.html   (334 words)

  
 Rhetorical Identification In Paul's Autobiographical Narrative
Until very recently, most studies of Galatians have followed the suggestion of Martin Luther that Paul's autobiographical remarks in Galatians 1 and 2 were 'boasting and glorying' that followed out of his divine calling.
Further, Galatians is closer in form and purpose to the letters of Seneca and Pliny than to the autobiographical narratives cited by Lyons and the advice of Quintilian cited by Betz.
A Burkean approach to the study of Paul's autobiographical narrative seeks to discover both the ways in which Paul sought to identify with the Galatians and the ways in which he asked them directly and indirectly, to identify with him and his message.
www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=4   (5692 words)

  
 Autobiographical Memory; Editor: Rubin, David C.; Paperback
Autobiographical memory is the basis for most psychotherapies, an important repository of legal, historical, and literary information, and, in some views, the source of the concept of self.
Topics include the schematic and temporal organization of autobiographical memory, the temporal distribution of autobiographical memories, and failuresBrings together and integrates the best contemporary work on the cognitive psychology of autobiographical memory.
Introductory chapters place the study of autobiographical memory in its historical, methodological and theoretical contexts.
www.netstoreusa.com /pvbooks/052/0521368502.shtml   (268 words)

  
 Focal autobiographical amnesia in association with transient epileptic amnesia -- Manes et al. 124 (3): 499 -- Brain
Focal autobiographical amnesia in association with transient epileptic amnesia -- Manes et al.
Differentiating the roles of the hippocampal complex and the neocortex in long-term memory storage: evidence from the study of semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Impaired knowledge of famous people and events with intact autobiographical memory in a case of progressive right temporal lobe degeneration: implications for the organisation of remote memory.
brain.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/full/124/3/499   (6284 words)

  
 New Autobiographical Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Society for Neuroscience is proud to announce publication of the inaugural volume of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, a collection of autobiographical essays by distinguished senior neuroscientists.
When the Society's Council approved this project in 1994, the notion was to produce a series of bound volumes containing recollections of eminent neuroscientists about their lives in science.
While writing a full autobiographical text is a formidable undertaking, it was supposed that preparing an autobiographical chapter is a less daunting task and that senior scientists might even find the project tempting.
www.sfn.org /nl/1996/november-december/book.html   (531 words)

  
 Twentieth Century Literature: Trapping the Fox You Are with a Riddle: The Autobiographical Crisis of Stephen Dedalus in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Again, Joyce seems to encourage autobiographical inquiries by his confession to Budgen that Stephen Dedalus as he appears in A Portrait of the Artist (a significant the before artist) is a self-portrait (James Joyce 60).
All we can say in general terms is that in his own books [Joyce] reworked situations and themes he found in his own experience, either actually or potentially--which is so obvious a truism that it is hardly of much profit.
If we believe Stephen to be an autobiographical character, then what he argues regarding the biographic bearing in Shakespeare's plays should be crucial, for we can interpret the argument as a reflexive statement pertaining to James Joyce, the original model for the self-portrait.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_3_45/ai_58926038   (1110 words)

  
 Autobiographical Unit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The spine of most autobiographical writing is a key moment or event, or a series of key moments or events, that shape or reveal the author's emerging character or growth in understanding.
Choose an event or series of events that will be engaging to your readers and that will, at the same time, show them something about you and who you are as a person.
Remember that a significant event or events doesn't mean something that was traumatic for you--it's something that influenced how you act today, who you are today--something that happened that had a positive effect on your life and on the person you are right now.
www.shastalink.k12.ca.us /ams/gasaway/autobio.htm   (766 words)

  
 Odour-evoked Autobiographical Memories: Psychological Investigations of Proustian Phenomena -- Chu and Downes 25 (1): ...
of odour-cued autobiographical memories as a function of age.
Rubin, D.C., Groth, E. and Goldsmith, D.J. Olfactory cuing of autobiographical memory.
Rubin, D.C., Wetzler, S.E. and Nebes, R.D. Autobiographical memory across the adult lifespan.
chemse.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/full/25/1/111   (4006 words)

  
 Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Winter 2006 issue of _Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly_ (28.1) will be a Special Issue on "Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act." Guest Editor Linda Haverty Rugg invites essays examining narrative (non-documentary) cinema as autobiography.
Theorist Philippe Lejeune argued against the possibility of narrative films as autobiography, while Elizabeth Bruss speculated that viewing narrative films as autobiographies would lead to a redefinition not only of autobiography as a genre, but selfhood as a construct.
In a kind of manifesto for cinematic auteurism, the young François Truffaut wrote in 1959: ³The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/003383.html   (378 words)

  
 Autobiographical Reflections, by Eric Voegelin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Autobiographical Reflections is a window into the mind of a man whose reassessment of the nature of history and thought has overturned traditional approaches to, and appraisals of, the Western intellectual tradition.
Here we encounter the motivations for Voegelin's work, the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age.
He is the general editor of Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and author or editor of numerous books, including The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law and The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness.
www.umsystem.edu /upress/voegelin/auto.htm   (316 words)

  
 Autobiographical links US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The gutsy and compassionate autobiographical account of Mary Kingsley's explorations of West Africa.
Autobiographical links US or references to the subject of autobiographical...
collectiblesus.dunmarsh.com /collectibles/autobiographical.html   (120 words)

  
 Writing Task: Autobiographical Sketch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Therefore, in order for us to be able to attach individuals to the names we will see, the first assignment is for you to write an autobiographical sketch as a way of introduction.
Of course, you will want to include basic factual information such as the area you live in, where you went to school, where you work and so forth.
I was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1942 and grew up in the Tidewater area except for the war years of 1942 through 1944 when my family lived in Washington D.C. At that time, my Dad was in the navy and was studying at Bliss Radio School.
www.moonstar.com /~acpjr/Blackboard/Common/Webdocs/wtauto.html   (604 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eusebius of Caesarea
According to this view it is natural to regard the introduction, "As we have received" etc., as autobiographical, and to infer that Eusebius had exercised the office of priesthood in the city of Cæsarea before he became its bishop, and had received his earliest religious instruction and the sacrament of Baptism there also.
But other interpretations of this document are given, one of which destroys, while the other diminishes, its biographical value: (a) According to some the creed proferred by Eusebius was drawn up as a formula to be subscribed by all the bishops.
According to this interpretation the preliminary statement still remains autobiographical; but it merely informs us that the writer exercised the office of priest before he became a bishop.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05617b.htm   (5257 words)

  
 ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan
With the students, complete the Autobiographical Incident Rubric, assessing your autobiographical incident.
Ask students to use the Timeline Tool or the Graphic Map to organize the chronological events in their autobiographical incident they will write about.
With the students, assess your autobiographical incident using the rubric.
www.readwritethink.org /lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=14   (997 words)

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