Richard Freadman
Biographic Data
| ID | 608813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Freadman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Freadman |
| SIGNATURE | FREADMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Family Conscience
Life Writing and Dementia Care
This essay describes the first phase of a project in which life writing is used as a form of person-centred care for people who have, or appear to have, dementia. Section one of the essay considers the relationship between the academic field of life writing and the uses of life narrative in dementia care. Examples of published dementia life writing are cited; topics discussed include conventional cultural understandings of dementia; the distincti…
Remembering David Parker (1943-2015)
Remembering David Parker (1943–2015) Mary Besemeres (bio), John Eakin (bio), and Richard Freadman (bio) remembering david - mary besemeres Click for larger view View full resolution Photo courtesy of Helen Parker. My earliest memory of David Parker is of a lecture he gave in 1990, my first year at the Australian National University, on English poet Edward Thomas’s four-stanza poem “Adlestrop.” The poem is about being made to stop and listen, deep…
Spanning Cancer
Clinging to the Shreds of the Self
Inga Clendinnen's Tiger's Eye is a brilliant, if conflicted, work of what I term 'illness life writing' (as opposed to the scientistic terms 'pathography' or 'autopathography'). In fact, no single generic descriptor can do justice to this text, which comprises elements of illness and survival writing, memoir, autobiography, fiction, narrative history, confession and Kunsterroman. As its title suggests, the book exudes a tigerish, agential tenacit…
Teaching Non-Fictional Prose in Melbourne and Hong Kong
(2008). Teaching Non-Fictional Prose in Melbourne and Hong Kong. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 23, Paul John Eakin and James Olney: A Festschrift, pp. 96-122
The Bonds of Civility Cut Asunder
This article explores how the work of Australian Jewish author Arnold Zable, a second generation Holocaust survivor, calls forth a global moral community, by imagining community in a way that honors the specificities of local culture and the insider's intimacy of belonging, while respecting the multicultural citizen's ability to participate in other cultural worlds
Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography
This essay considers post-Holocaust Australian Jewish autobiography with respect to six broad issues: authorial motivation and the contexts in which the narratives are written; shifts in narrative practice as between first- and second-generation works (included in the latter are child survivor memoirs); attitudes to Australia and the extent to which various authors write the adoptive culture in their autobiographies; theoretical and methodologica…
Jas review of books
Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985. Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834. Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958. Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Life, Carlton, MUP, 2003, pp 322, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850782. Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Mem…
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
Reading Autobiography
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. 296 pp. ISBN 0-8166-2882-3, $37.95 cloth; 0-8166-2883-1, $14.95 paper
Genius and the Dutiful Life
This article argues for the existence of the "biography of the philosopher" as a sub-genre of life writing, and identifies a number of coordinates that assist in characterizing the writing, reading, and interpretation of examples of this sub-genre. Exemplifying the need to consider biographies of philosophers on a case-by-case basis, a reading of Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein in light of these coordinates reveals a resemblance between Witt…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Custodians of Their Own Fates”? Auto/Biography and the Will in Diana Trilling's The Beginning of the Journey
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisation…
Re-Thinking Theory
Three views of literary theory
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
Three views of literary theory
Three views of literary theory
Re-Thinking Theory
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
Is it possible for postmodernism to offer viable, coherent accounts of ethics? Or are our social and intellectual worlds too fragmented for any broad consensus about the moral life? These issues have emerged as some of the most contentious in literary and philosophical studies. In Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory a distinguished international gathering of philosophers and literary scholars address the reconceptualisation…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Custodians of Their Own Fates”? Auto/Biography and the Will in Diana Trilling's The Beginning of the Journey
Genius and the Dutiful Life
This article argues for the existence of the "biography of the philosopher" as a sub-genre of life writing, and identifies a number of coordinates that assist in characterizing the writing, reading, and interpretation of examples of this sub-genre. Exemplifying the need to consider biographies of philosophers on a case-by-case basis, a reading of Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein in light of these coordinates reveals a resemblance between Witt…
Reading Autobiography
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001. 296 pp. ISBN 0-8166-2882-3, $37.95 cloth; 0-8166-2883-1, $14.95 paper
Generational Shifts in Post-Holocaust Australian Jewish Autobiography
This essay considers post-Holocaust Australian Jewish autobiography with respect to six broad issues: authorial motivation and the contexts in which the narratives are written; shifts in narrative practice as between first- and second-generation works (included in the latter are child survivor memoirs); attitudes to Australia and the extent to which various authors write the adoptive culture in their autobiographies; theoretical and methodologica…
Jas review of books
Mary Besemeres, Translating One's Self, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp 295, pb, ISBN 3906766985. Richard Freadman, Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself, Bystander Press, Northcote, 2004, pp 288, pb $24.95, ISBN 0957797834. Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, Melbourne, Text, 2004, pp 342, hb $45.00, ISBN 1877008958. Philip Ayres, Mawson: A Life, Carlton, MUP, 2003, pp 322, pb $34.95, ISBN 0522850782. Victoria Leatham, Bloodletting: A Mem…
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
The Bonds of Civility Cut Asunder
This article explores how the work of Australian Jewish author Arnold Zable, a second generation Holocaust survivor, calls forth a global moral community, by imagining community in a way that honors the specificities of local culture and the insider's intimacy of belonging, while respecting the multicultural citizen's ability to participate in other cultural worlds
Teaching Non-Fictional Prose in Melbourne and Hong Kong
(2008). Teaching Non-Fictional Prose in Melbourne and Hong Kong. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 23, Paul John Eakin and James Olney: A Festschrift, pp. 96-122
Clinging to the Shreds of the Self
Inga Clendinnen's Tiger's Eye is a brilliant, if conflicted, work of what I term 'illness life writing' (as opposed to the scientistic terms 'pathography' or 'autopathography'). In fact, no single generic descriptor can do justice to this text, which comprises elements of illness and survival writing, memoir, autobiography, fiction, narrative history, confession and Kunsterroman. As its title suggests, the book exudes a tigerish, agential tenacit…
Spanning Cancer
Life Writing and Dementia Care
This essay describes the first phase of a project in which life writing is used as a form of person-centred care for people who have, or appear to have, dementia. Section one of the essay considers the relationship between the academic field of life writing and the uses of life narrative in dementia care. Examples of published dementia life writing are cited; topics discussed include conventional cultural understandings of dementia; the distincti…
Remembering David Parker (1943-2015)
Remembering David Parker (1943–2015) Mary Besemeres (bio), John Eakin (bio), and Richard Freadman (bio) remembering david - mary besemeres Click for larger view View full resolution Photo courtesy of Helen Parker. My earliest memory of David Parker is of a lecture he gave in 1990, my first year at the Australian National University, on English poet Edward Thomas’s four-stanza poem “Adlestrop.” The poem is about being made to stop and listen, deep…
Family Conscience
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