Bucknell University

Department of Modern Languages

 

Spring Semester 2000
K. Faull-Eze
Wednesday 1-4 pm
Coleman 056

 

 

Capstone 490-33

"Examining our Lives: Issues in Autobiography"

Select Bibliography

 

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  2. Barbour, John D. The Conscience of the Autobiographer. Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
  3. Barthes, Roland, "The Death of the Author," in Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), 142-48.
  4. Becher, Ursula. "Weibliches Selbstverständnis in Selbstzeugnissen des 18. Jahrhunderts" in Weiblichkeit in geschichtlicher Perspektive. Fallstudien und Reflexionen zu Grundproblemen der historischen Frauenforschung. Eds. Ursula A.J. Becher and Jörn Rüsen. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1988. Pp. 217-233.
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  6. Benstock, Shari. Ed. The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Autobiographical Writings. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  7. Beyer-Fröhlich, Marianne. Die Entwicklung der deutschen Selbstzeugnisse. 1930. Rpt. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1970.
  8. Bomke, Heidrun. Vergangenheit im Spiegel autobiographischen Schreibens: Untersuchungen zu autobiographischen Texten. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1993.
  9. Brinker-Gabler, Gisela and Sidonie Smith. Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
  10. Brodzki, Bella and Celeste Schenck, eds. Life lines : theorizing women's autobiography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
  11. Bromwich, David. "A Note on the Romantic Self."
  12. Broughton, T.L. "Women's autobiography : the self at stake?" in Autobiography and questions of gender. London: F. Cass, 1991.
  13. Brucker Eva, "Clubmen and functionaries : male memory in two Berlin working-class neighborhoods from the 1920s to the 1980s" in Gender and memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  14. Campt, Tina. "Afro-German Cultural Identity and the Politics of Positionality: Contests and Contexts in the Formation of a German Ethnic Identity." New German Critique 58 (Winter 1993): 109-26.
  15. Clifford, J. "On Ethnographic Authority" Representations 1 (1983)
  16. Cixous, Hélène. Rootprints : memory and life writing. Trans. Eric Prenowitz. London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
  17. Critchfield, Richard, When Lucifer cometh: the autobiographical discourse of writers and intellectuals exiled during the Third Reich. New York: P. Lang, 1994.
  18. Culp, Mildred L. "Wiesel's Memoir and God Outside Auschwitz" Explorations in Ethnic Studies 4:1 (1981): 62-74
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  20. Eakin, Paul John. Fictions in Autobiography. Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
  21. Faull, Katherine M. Moravian Women's Memoirs: their related lives, 1750-1820. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997.
  22. Foucault, Michel. "What is an Author?" in Textual Strategies: Perspectives in Post-Structuralist Criticism, ed. Josué V. Harari (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), 141-60.
  23. Frieden, Sandra. Autobiography: Self into Form: German Language Autobiographical Writings of the 1970s. New York: Lang, 1983.
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  25. Gilmour, Peter. The Wisdom of Memoir: Reading and Writing Life's Sacred Texts. Winona, Minn.: St. Mary's Press, 1997.
  26. Goodman, Katherine. "Elisabeth to Meta: Epistolary Autobiography and the Postulation of the Self" in Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography, eds. Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), 306-19.
  27. ---.Dis/Ckosures: women's autobiography in Germany between 1790 and 1914 . New York :P. Lang,1986.
  28. Goodman, Kay. "Weibliche Autobiographien." In Schreibende Frauen: Frauen, Literatur, Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Eds. Hiltrud Gnüg and Renate Möhrmann. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1989. Pp. 289-99.
  29. Gusdorf, Georges. "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography" in Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 28-48.
  30. Hoppe, K. "Whose Life is it anyway-Issue of Representation in Life Narrative Texts" International Journal of African Historical Studies 26 (1993) 62-
  31. Irlam, Shaun . "Showing Losses, Counting Gains: 'Scenes' from Negative Autobiography" MLN 106 (1991): 997-1011.
  32. Jay, Paul. "Being in the Text: Autobiography and the Problem of the Subject." Modern Language Notes 97 (1982): 1046-63.
  33. Jelinek, Estelle. The Tradition of Women's Autobiography. From Antiquity to the Present. Boston: Twayne, 1986.
  34. ---. Ed. Women's Autobiography: Essays in Criticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
  35. Klages, Norgard, Look back in anger: mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships in women's autobiographical writings of the 1970s and 1980s. New York: P. Lang, 1995.
  36. Klaiber, Theodor. Die deutsche Selbstbiographie. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1921.
  37. Kosta, Barbara. Recasting autobiography: women's counterfictions in contemporary German literature and film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  38. Kritzman-Lawrence-D. (ed. & introd.). Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and 'the Jewish Question' in France. New York : Routledge, 1994.
  39. Lehmann, Jürgen. Bekennen--Erzählen--Berichten. Studien zu Theorie und Geschichte der Autobiographie. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1988.
  40. Lejeune, Philippe. "The Autobiographical Contract." In French Literary Theory Today: A Reader. Ed. Tzvetan Todorov. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  41. ---. On Autobiography. Trans. Katherine Leary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989.
  42. Lionnet, Françoise. Autobiographical voices: race, gender, self-portraiture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
  43. Lloyd, Genevieve. Introduction and Chapter 1, Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature (Routledge, 1993)
  44. Mahrholz, Werner. Deutsche Selbstbekenntnisse: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Selbstbiographie von der Mystik bis zum Pietismus (Berlin: Furche, 1919).
  45. Martin, Elaine. "Autobiography, gender, and the Third Reich: Eva Zeller, Carola Stern, and Christabel Bielenberg" in Gender, patriarchy, and fascism in the Third Reich: the response of women writers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
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  47. Maynes, Mary Jo. "Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies" in Personal Narratives Group, eds. Interpreting women's lives: feminist theory and personal narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  48. Matthiesen, Michon Marie, "Narrative of Suffering: Complementary Reflections of Theological Anthropology in Johann Metz and Elie Wiesel" Religion and Literature, 18:2(1986): 47-63.
  49. Moorjani , Angela. "Kathe Kollwitz on sacrifice, mourning, and reparation: an essay in psychoaesthetics." MLN 101 (Dec. 1986): 1110-34.
  50. Niggl, Günter. Geschichte der deutschen Autobiographie im 18. Jahrhundert: Theoretische Grundlegung und literarische Entfaltung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1977.
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  54. Olney, James. "Aké: Wole Soyinka as Autobiographer" The Yale Review 73 (1983): 72-93.
  55. Olney, James. "Transmogrifications of Life-Writing" The Southern Review.
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  57. Pauleweit, Karin. Dienstmadchen um die Jahrhundertwende im Selbtbildnis und im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, 1993.
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  59. Plank, Karl A."The Survivor's Return: Reflections on Memory and Place" Judaism:: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought 38:3 (1989): 263-277.
  60. Quayson, Ato. "Wole Soyinka and Autobiography as Political Unconscious" Journal of Commonwelth Literature 31 (1996) :19-32.
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  62. Roth, John K, "From Night to Twilight: A Philosopher's Reading of Elie Wiesel" Religion and Literature, 24:1 (1992): 59-73.
  63. Rubenstein, Richard L. "The Promise and the Pitfalls of Autobiographical Theology" in Detweiler Robert (ed. & introd.). Art/Literature/Religion: Life on the Borders. (Chico, CA : Scholars, 1983)
  64. Saunders, Barbara. Contemporary German Autobiography. Literary Approaches to the Problem of Identity. London: Institute of Germanic Studies, 1985.
  65. Smith, Sidonie. A poetics of women's autobiography: marginality and the fictions of self-representation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
  66. Soyinka, Wole. "Seminar on Aké with Wole Soyinka" The Southern Review 23 (1987): 511-26.
  67. Steussy, Fredric S. Eighteenth-century German autobiography: the emergence of individuality. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
  68. Thomson, A. "Fifty Years on: An International Perspective on Oral History" Journal of American History 85 (1998): 581-95.
  69. Vandergeest, S. "Anthropologists and Missionaries: Brothers under the Skin" Man 25 (1990): 588-601.
  70. Vanderwerken,-David-L. "Wiesel's Night as Anti-Bildungsroman" Yiddish, 7:4 (1990): 57-63
  71. Visweswaran, K. "Histories of Feminist Ethnography" Annual Review of Anthropology 26 (1997): 591-621.
  72. Watson, Julia and Sidonie Smith, "De/colonization and the politics of discourse in women's autobiographical practices" in De/colonizing the subject: the politics of gender in women's autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
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