... Representation Hybridity Documentary Autobiography Euthanasia We, the survivors, are not the true witnesses. … [W]e who were favored by fate tried, with more or less wisdom, to recount not only our fate but also that of the others, indeed of the drowned; but this was a discourse ‘on behalf of third parties...

... of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid, all of whom pertain to a single tradition of blending polemical writing, exegesis, and autobiography. autobiography conversion and converts to Christianity Gregory I the Great pope Guibert of Nogent Guillaume de Bourges Herman Judah of Cologne authorship Bible...

... Fyodor Madaule Pierre Mascolo Dionys Rand Richard Montaigne Michel de Hugo Victor Hitler Adolf Derrida autobiography dismay negativity ecstasy matrix scene Bataille Malraux Montaigne Rousseau My dear Jacques, I had sworn not to give in to it, to do everything in my power to avoid...

...Scholars now concur that the text Ignatius Loyola dictated late in life should not be labeled an autobiography: the existing text does not cover Ignatius's entire life, and he did not write it. Jerónimo Nadal (1507-80), Ignatius's most trusted Jesuit collaborator, urged that the text be titled...

... by the results of the war, he does not wish to survive the crisis. He concludes by quoting the words of poet Swinburne in Songs before Sunrise. Josiah Royce autobiography autobiographical sketch Swinburne Great Community I was born in 1855 in California. My native town was a mining town...

...In this essay, Cavell revisits this signature phrase, “philosophy as the education of grownups,” bringing together thoughts, prompted by the recent preparation for publication of his autobiography, of a return to the opening of the Investigations and a pondering of how children...

...Most discussions of George W. Bush's religious faith draw heavily on his campaign autobiography, A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House (1999), which puts religion at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. The book describes a gradual transformation that included...

... complete veracity, he decided from the outset that these would be published only posthumously. Nevertheless, Clemens's autobiography is singularly unrevealing. This book argues that, by contrast, it is in his fiction that Clemens most fully — if often inadvertently — reveals himself. He was, he confessed...

...This introductory chapter begins by presenting the book's rationales for pushing the discussion of the other in autobiography toward a consideration of an alterity outside the subject's categories, all of which address its open-endedness and its specificity as written text. It then explains...

...De Profundis, Wilde's autobiographical letter, is motivated by a double silence, and with it, a double secret and a double responsibility that say much about Wilde's concept of the I in its relation to the other. These two silences, which bring us into the arena of autobiography...

... the idealized romance with sovereignty as a way of developing a more historically grounded approach to the urgent task of decolonizing Puerto Rico. Derrida Jacques ipseity Puerto Rican studies autobiography closure Dasein deconstruction field historical representation literary history sovereignty...

... in the first place. The Borderers is indeed profoundly concerned with the relationship between autobiography and revolutionary democratic politics. Critics responded to the invitation implicit in Wordsworth's remarks to interpret The Borderers as a combination...

... Bürger Peter Bynum Caroline Walker self histories of Taylor Charles Ebner Margaretha Eckhart Meister Heinrich von Nördlingen autobiography dreams Louis of Bavaria Tauler Johannes Pfister Oskar Bernard of Clairvaux Elisabeth of Beggenhofen Ramswag Anna El Saffar Ruth Jantzen Grace...

... response is to develop forms of self-monitoring which pre-empt the controlling structures of the ecclesiastical authorities. The result is the development of techniques of self-control, and an associated vocabulary, that prefigure modern forms of identity. A reading of Seuse's autobiography written in part...

...The first section of this chapter considers the questions of Dalit historicity and the work of critics Kancha Ilaiah and D.R. Nagaraj on the problem of narrative time. The genre of autobiography has become a revolutionary one in Dalit literature, transforming a paradigm inherited from women's...

...Through the privileged example of W. E. B. Du Bois’ s 1940 text Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept, this chapter shows how a critical autobiographical practice might sustain a self-reflexive theoretical account of the grounds of practices of self-identification...

... “spiritual autobiography” which affirms impersonal being – nonetheless reinscribes the self at the scene of its depersonalization. The problematic pursued in this chapter, then, is the antinomy through which decreation unfolds. baptism Catholicism Catholic Church Christianity conversion God Meltzer...

...This chapter examines the Gaelic autobiographies emerging from the Blasket Islands in the late 1920s and early 1930s and argues that they offer a crucial reassessment of the modernist aesthetic framework developed by Yeats and Synge for the Irish Literary Revival. Focusing on The Islandman...

... London non-communities presented in the novel. This big multi-plotted novel is read in detail from this perspective and from the perspective of what Trollope says in An Autobiography about his own life. The conclusion of this reading is that, somewhat surprisingly perhaps...

... Søren Descartes René Bloom Harold Socrates self-examination Hadot autobiography spiritual exercises ancient philosophy I was attached to this city by the god—though it seems a ridiculous thing to say—as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size...