Paul John Eakin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 512384 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul John Eakin |
| PRENOMES | Paul John |
| SOBRENOME | Eakin |
| ASSINATURA | EAKIN P J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University, Bloomington, Emeritus |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Does Autobiography Have a Future
Does autobiography have a future? Philippe Lejeune was already asking this question in 1971 in a little book he wrote to promote the study of what was then a neglected genre in France—and elsewhere
The Economy of Narrative Identity
Research Article| December 01 2007 The Economy of Narrative Identity Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 117–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-041 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Narrative Identity and Narrative Imperialism
Narrative Identity and Narrative Imperialism:A Response to Galen Strawson and James Phelan Paul John Eakin (bio) What is narrative identity? In an article I published in this journal two years ago, I defined it as "the notion that what we are is a story of some kind." Before investigating its social and somatic sources, I added that I regarded this idea as "counterintuitive and even extravagant." James Phelan liked my characterization of narrativ…
Living Autobiographically
Linking autobiography and the homeostatic activity of the body, which regulates the stability of the human organism as it moves into the future, this essay stresses the future orientation of memoryÕs recovery of the past. Andr Aciman's sketch "Arbitrage" captures this forward movement of memory work, embedded in our lives even as we live them
Breaking Rules
Autobiography lends itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism. As we might say in the States, the right to write our life stories is a natural extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. May we, though, say and write what we please when we engage in self-narration? Not necessarily, not unless we are prepared--depending on the nature of the case--to suffer consequences of considerable gravity. A Nobel Pe…
How Our Lives Become Stories
How Our Lives Become Stories
Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, Eakins enhances our knowledge of the complex forces that shape identity, and confronts the equally complex problems that arise when we write about who we think we are.
Touching the World
Touching the World
Touching the World
Autobiography and American Culture
AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: RESTROSPECT AND PROSPECT, IN THE WISconsin Studies in American Autobiography Series, demonstrates the strength and diversity of autobiographical scholarship in the United States in the late twentieth century.' The collection of essays signifies not only the vigor of scholarly work but also the proliferation of autobiographical writing. Americans wrote over five thousand autobiographies between 1945 and 1980, according to M…
Touching the World
Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here…
American Autobiography
Journal Article American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Paul John Eakin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Get access American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Eakin Paul John. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Robert F. Sayre Robert F. Sayre University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
"Henry James's "Obscure Hurt
and bibliographies posits the kinship of autobiography and biography, ranging them both under the aegis of history as categories of the literature of reference, kinds of writing determined by their presumed basis in verifiable fact. Yet it is precisely with regard to this central identifying feature of reference to a world beyond the text that theory of autobiography today differs from the practice of biography. Thus it has become commonplace for…
Fictions in Autobiography
Fictions in Autobiography
Current Interests, Work in Progress
The Great Succession
Alfred Kazin's Bridge to America
Research Article| January 01 1978 Alfred Kazin’s Bridge to America Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (1): 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-1-39 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul John Eakin; Alfred Kazin’s Bridge to America. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1978; 77 (1): 39–53.…
The New England Girl
Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics
Research Article| July 01 1976 Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (3): 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-75-3-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul John Eakin; Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics. South Atlan…
Poe's Sense of an Ending
I N The Golden Bowl PRINCE AMERIGO recalls wonder and mystery of ending of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, thing to show, by way, what imagination Americans could have.' For all native power of final image of Poe's longest tale, however, Henry James himself was unsparing in his criticism of its artistic failure: the climax fails-fails because it stops short, and stops short for want of connexions. There are no connexions; not only, I mean, in…
"Hawthorne's Imagination and the Structure of "The Custom-House
AAV HILE THE CUSTOM-HouSE was valued for many years chiefly for the celebrated passage in which Hawthorne describes the neutral territory1 of his deserted parlor, generally received as the standard text on his conception of the imagination, recent criticism defended the whole of the lengthy preface as a suitable introductory to Scarlet Letter. sketch has, however, found few to champion it as a piece in its own right even among its most perceptive…
Sarah Orne Jewett and the Meaning of Country Life
J T IS ENTIRELY UNDERSTANDABLE that criticism of the writing of Sarah Orne Jewett has been concerned almost exclusively with her acknowledged masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs (I896). While the present essay, like it predecessors, is ultimately devoted to the presentation of a fresh reading of that work, it takes as its point of departure an investigation of Miss Jewett's literary career as a whole. An appreciation of Pointed Firs, of …
The Economy of Narrative Identity
Research Article| December 01 2007 The Economy of Narrative Identity Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 117–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-041 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Breaking Rules
Autobiography lends itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism. As we might say in the States, the right to write our life stories is a natural extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. May we, though, say and write what we please when we engage in self-narration? Not necessarily, not unless we are prepared--depending on the nature of the case--to suffer consequences of considerable gravity. A Nobel Pe…
Living Autobiographically
Linking autobiography and the homeostatic activity of the body, which regulates the stability of the human organism as it moves into the future, this essay stresses the future orientation of memoryÕs recovery of the past. Andr Aciman's sketch "Arbitrage" captures this forward movement of memory work, embedded in our lives even as we live them
Does Autobiography Have a Future
Does autobiography have a future? Philippe Lejeune was already asking this question in 1971 in a little book he wrote to promote the study of what was then a neglected genre in France—and elsewhere
American Autobiography
Journal Article American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Paul John Eakin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Get access American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Eakin Paul John. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Robert F. Sayre Robert F. Sayre University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
"Henry James's "Obscure Hurt
and bibliographies posits the kinship of autobiography and biography, ranging them both under the aegis of history as categories of the literature of reference, kinds of writing determined by their presumed basis in verifiable fact. Yet it is precisely with regard to this central identifying feature of reference to a world beyond the text that theory of autobiography today differs from the practice of biography. Thus it has become commonplace for…
Sarah Orne Jewett and the Meaning of Country Life
J T IS ENTIRELY UNDERSTANDABLE that criticism of the writing of Sarah Orne Jewett has been concerned almost exclusively with her acknowledged masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs (I896). While the present essay, like it predecessors, is ultimately devoted to the presentation of a fresh reading of that work, it takes as its point of departure an investigation of Miss Jewett's literary career as a whole. An appreciation of Pointed Firs, of …
"Hawthorne's Imagination and the Structure of "The Custom-House
AAV HILE THE CUSTOM-HouSE was valued for many years chiefly for the celebrated passage in which Hawthorne describes the neutral territory1 of his deserted parlor, generally received as the standard text on his conception of the imagination, recent criticism defended the whole of the lengthy preface as a suitable introductory to Scarlet Letter. sketch has, however, found few to champion it as a piece in its own right even among its most perceptive…
Poe's Sense of an Ending
I N The Golden Bowl PRINCE AMERIGO recalls wonder and mystery of ending of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, thing to show, by way, what imagination Americans could have.' For all native power of final image of Poe's longest tale, however, Henry James himself was unsparing in his criticism of its artistic failure: the climax fails-fails because it stops short, and stops short for want of connexions. There are no connexions; not only, I mean, in…
Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics
Research Article| July 01 1976 Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (3): 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-75-3-323 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul John Eakin; Margaret Fuller, Hawthorne, James, and Sexual Politics. South Atlan…
The New England Girl
Alfred Kazin's Bridge to America
Research Article| January 01 1978 Alfred Kazin’s Bridge to America Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (1): 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-1-39 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul John Eakin; Alfred Kazin’s Bridge to America. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1978; 77 (1): 39–53.…
The Great Succession
Current Interests, Work in Progress
Fictions in Autobiography
Fictions in Autobiography
"Henry James's "Obscure Hurt
and bibliographies posits the kinship of autobiography and biography, ranging them both under the aegis of history as categories of the literature of reference, kinds of writing determined by their presumed basis in verifiable fact. Yet it is precisely with regard to this central identifying feature of reference to a world beyond the text that theory of autobiography today differs from the practice of biography. Thus it has become commonplace for…
Touching the World
Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here…
American Autobiography
Journal Article American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Paul John Eakin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Get access American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. by Eakin Paul John. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. vi + 292 pp. Cloth, $42.50. Paper, $15.50.) Robert F. Sayre Robert F. Sayre University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Touching the World
Touching the World
Autobiography and American Culture
AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: RESTROSPECT AND PROSPECT, IN THE WISconsin Studies in American Autobiography Series, demonstrates the strength and diversity of autobiographical scholarship in the United States in the late twentieth century.' The collection of essays signifies not only the vigor of scholarly work but also the proliferation of autobiographical writing. Americans wrote over five thousand autobiographies between 1945 and 1980, according to M…
Touching the World
How Our Lives Become Stories
Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, Eakins enhances our knowledge of the complex forces that shape identity, and confronts the equally complex problems that arise when we write about who we think we are.
How Our Lives Become Stories
Breaking Rules
Autobiography lends itself easily to the ideology of egalitarian individualism. As we might say in the States, the right to write our life stories is a natural extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. May we, though, say and write what we please when we engage in self-narration? Not necessarily, not unless we are prepared--depending on the nature of the case--to suffer consequences of considerable gravity. A Nobel Pe…
Living Autobiographically
Linking autobiography and the homeostatic activity of the body, which regulates the stability of the human organism as it moves into the future, this essay stresses the future orientation of memoryÕs recovery of the past. Andr Aciman's sketch "Arbitrage" captures this forward movement of memory work, embedded in our lives even as we live them
Narrative Identity and Narrative Imperialism
Narrative Identity and Narrative Imperialism:A Response to Galen Strawson and James Phelan Paul John Eakin (bio) What is narrative identity? In an article I published in this journal two years ago, I defined it as "the notion that what we are is a story of some kind." Before investigating its social and somatic sources, I added that I regarded this idea as "counterintuitive and even extravagant." James Phelan liked my characterization of narrativ…
The Economy of Narrative Identity
Research Article| December 01 2007 The Economy of Narrative Identity Paul John Eakin Paul John Eakin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (Suppl_1): 117–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2006-041 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Se…
Does Autobiography Have a Future
Does autobiography have a future? Philippe Lejeune was already asking this question in 1971 in a little book he wrote to promote the study of what was then a neglected genre in France—and elsewhere
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