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The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures by G. Thomas Couser, ISBN-13: 978-0367620783
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The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures by G. Thomas Couser, ISBN-13: 978-0367620783 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (April 13, 2021) Language: English 206 pages ISBN-10: 0367620782 ISBN-13: 978-0367620783 Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the […]
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The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures by G. Thomas Couser, ISBN-13: 978-0367620783
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- Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (April 13, 2021)
- Language: English
- 206 pages
- ISBN-10: 0367620782
- ISBN-13: 978-0367620783
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not; it bears on the world in a way distinct from imaginative genres like fiction, drama, and poetry; it acts in and on history in significant ways. Memoirs of illness and disability often seek to depathologize the conditions that they recount. Memoirs of parents by their children extend or alter relations forged initially face to face in the home. At a time when memoir and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in unprecedented numbers, this book reminds readers that memoir is not mainly a “literary” genre or mere entertainment. Similarly, letters are not merely epiphenomena of our “real lives.” Correspondence does not just serve to communicate; it enacts and sustains human relationships. Memoir matters, and there’s life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.
G. Thomas Couser received his doctorate in American Civilization at Brown University in 1977. After teaching English at Connecticut College, he moved on to Hofstra University, where he founded and directed a Disability Studies Program. From his dissertation on, his scholarship has been concerned with autobiography and memoir, especially with life writing stimulated by disability and illness and the ethics of life writing.
His academic books include Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (2009), and Memoir: An Introduction (2012). He has also published dozens of articles and book chapters.
In addition to scholarship, he has published personal essays in the Southwest Review, New Haven Review, and Hudson Review and Letter to My Father: A Memoir (2017).
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