The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures

by G. Thomas Couser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367620812
• ISBN13: 9780367620813
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"