John Gatt-Rutter
Biographic Data
| ID | 696180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Gatt-Rutter |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Gatt-Rutter |
| SIGNATURE | GATT-RUTTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parkinson's Gift
Michael J. Fox's account of his experience of Parkinson's Disease in Lucky Man describes it as a gift which leads him out of the delusional world of magical thinking into his authentic self and a truth beyond mortality. This paper explores this ‘truth’ as presented in Fox's and others' illness narratives and relates it to the author's experience of his own Parkinson's diagnosis. Keywords: Michael J. Notes This is an expanded version of the paper …
Translating Lives
A necessary part of an enquiry into the writing of life histories of a linguistic and cultural (or ‘ethnic’) minority is the examination of the linguistic and discursive transactions of the texts. Who is being addressed? What strategy of identity construction is being sought—assimilation? Integration? Dissociation? In a multicultural situation, any written life history must be to some extent a translation of one culture into another. Most culture…
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
Macrohistories and microhistories
Italo Svevo
When the killing had to stop
The Paradigm It is traditional to talk of the systematic change in Manzoni's outlook, thinking and belief which took place around 1810 as his conversion or reconversion to Christianity. The term 'conversion' is doubly relevant to this paper. Not only will its subject be Manzoni's variant representations of religious conversion (achieved or missed) within his creative works of the period from his own conversion to the first publication of I promes…
Summary report on the Italian audio-lingual and audio-visual working conference
Italian audio-lingual and audio-visual working-conference
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
Macrohistories and microhistories
Summary report on the Italian audio-lingual and audio-visual working conference
Italian audio-lingual and audio-visual working-conference
Italo Svevo
When the killing had to stop
The Paradigm It is traditional to talk of the systematic change in Manzoni's outlook, thinking and belief which took place around 1810 as his conversion or reconversion to Christianity. The term 'conversion' is doubly relevant to this paper. Not only will its subject be Manzoni's variant representations of religious conversion (achieved or missed) within his creative works of the period from his own conversion to the first publication of I promes…
Macrohistories and microhistories
Introduction
(2004). Introduction: Life Writing and the Generations. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 1-9
Translating Lives
A necessary part of an enquiry into the writing of life histories of a linguistic and cultural (or ‘ethnic’) minority is the examination of the linguistic and discursive transactions of the texts. Who is being addressed? What strategy of identity construction is being sought—assimilation? Integration? Dissociation? In a multicultural situation, any written life history must be to some extent a translation of one culture into another. Most culture…
Parkinson's Gift
Michael J. Fox's account of his experience of Parkinson's Disease in Lucky Man describes it as a gift which leads him out of the delusional world of magical thinking into his authentic self and a truth beyond mortality. This paper explores this ‘truth’ as presented in Fox's and others' illness narratives and relates it to the author's experience of his own Parkinson's diagnosis. Keywords: Michael J. Notes This is an expanded version of the paper …
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