Susanna Egan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanna Egan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Egan |
| SIGNATURE | EGAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity
(2008). Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 23, Paul John Eakin and James Olney: A Festschrift, pp. 52-64
Miriam Fuchs, The Text is Myself
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
The Company She Keeps
To combine imposture with autobiography is surely to create an oxymoron. Despite the extravagantly creative strategies that some autobiographers have used (famously, Gertrude Stein writing as Alice B. Toklas, more recently David Eggers playing with every assumption about autobiographical seriousness), readers still engage in le pacte autobiographique, the agreement that Philippe Lejeune outlined in the 1970s, that the author, narrator, and protag…
Memory, Narrative, Identity
Nicola King. Memory, Narrative, Identity: Remembering the Self. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000. 197 pp. ISBN 0-7486-1115-0, $25.00
Autobiography and Changing Identities
The papers we have brought together in this volume are not the proceedings of the Autobiography and Changing Identities Conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27-30 July 2000, but a selection of what was already a selection of amazing submissions to our call for papers on "changing identities." As editors, therefore, we have a lot to answer for. We are glad of this opportunity to describe and reflect on the editorial process of …
Lies, Damned Lies, and Autobiography
Changing Faces of Heroism
Autobiography has most commonly been a matter of lengthy retrospect on a dignified life and has assumed appropriately heroic patterns. Many contemporary autobiographies, in contrast, describe unfinished crises in the undervalued lives of minorities and need, accordingly, to evolve new patterns for autobiography. Defining and valuing one's own perspective and life represent a modern form of heroism
The Company She Keeps
To combine imposture with autobiography is surely to create an oxymoron. Despite the extravagantly creative strategies that some autobiographers have used (famously, Gertrude Stein writing as Alice B. Toklas, more recently David Eggers playing with every assumption about autobiographical seriousness), readers still engage in le pacte autobiographique, the agreement that Philippe Lejeune outlined in the 1970s, that the author, narrator, and protag…
Changing Faces of Heroism
Autobiography has most commonly been a matter of lengthy retrospect on a dignified life and has assumed appropriately heroic patterns. Many contemporary autobiographies, in contrast, describe unfinished crises in the undervalued lives of minorities and need, accordingly, to evolve new patterns for autobiography. Defining and valuing one's own perspective and life represent a modern form of heroism
Lies, Damned Lies, and Autobiography
Memory, Narrative, Identity
Nicola King. Memory, Narrative, Identity: Remembering the Self. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2000. 197 pp. ISBN 0-7486-1115-0, $25.00
Autobiography and Changing Identities
The papers we have brought together in this volume are not the proceedings of the Autobiography and Changing Identities Conference, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27-30 July 2000, but a selection of what was already a selection of amazing submissions to our call for papers on "changing identities." As editors, therefore, we have a lot to answer for. We are glad of this opportunity to describe and reflect on the editorial process of …
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
The Company She Keeps
To combine imposture with autobiography is surely to create an oxymoron. Despite the extravagantly creative strategies that some autobiographers have used (famously, Gertrude Stein writing as Alice B. Toklas, more recently David Eggers playing with every assumption about autobiographical seriousness), readers still engage in le pacte autobiographique, the agreement that Philippe Lejeune outlined in the 1970s, that the author, narrator, and protag…
Miriam Fuchs, The Text is Myself
Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity
(2008). Faith, Doubt, and Textual Identity. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 23, Paul John Eakin and James Olney: A Festschrift, pp. 52-64
Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Biography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)