9780679445937 - When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography von Conway, Jill Ker (15 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of memoirists over the centuries--from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and George Sand to W. E. B. Du Bois, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham--the author suggests why it is that we are so drawn to the reading of autobiography, and she illuminates the cultural assumptions behind the ways in which we talk about ourselves. Conway traces the narrative patterns typically found in autobiographies by men to the tale of the classical Greek hero and his epic journey of adventure. She shows how this configuration evolved, in memoirs, into the passionate romantic struggling against the conventions of society, into the frontier hero battling the wilderness, into self-made men overcoming economic obstacles to create an invention or a fortune--or, more recently, into a quest for meaning, for an understandable past, for an ethnic identity. In contrast, she sees the designs that women commonly employ for their memoirs as evolving from the writings of the mystics--such as Dame Julian of Norwich or St. Teresa of Avila--about their relationship with an all-powerful God. As against the male autobiographer's expectation of power over his fate, we see the woman memoirist again and again believing that she lacks command of her destiny, and tending to censor her own story. Throughout, Conway underlines the memoir's magic quality of allowing us to enter another human being's life and mind--and how this experience enlarges and instructs our own lives. 205 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over brown paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($23.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo, 209 pages, including index. A study of autobiography as a literary form, with particular attention to how men's and women's life narratives differ across history. Conway was the author of the bestselling memoir "The Road from Coorain" and served as president of Smith College.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 205pp. Edges lightly foxed, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of scratches on the front panel.

Hardcover. [10], 205, [9] p. Notes. Bibliographical Note. Index. From one of America's most admired autobiographers--author of "The Road from Coorain" and "True North"--comes an essay on form and style in modern and postmodern memories. As she focuses on the autobiographies famous people, from Benjamin Franklin to Virginia Woolf, Conway reveals the magical quality of entering the lives of others through their writings and tells how this experience enlarges and instructs our own. From Wikipedia: "Jill Ker Conway (born 9 October 1934) is an Australian-American author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain. She was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975 1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales in the outback of Australia. Together with her two brothers, Conway was raised in near-total isolation on a family owned 73 square kilometres (18, 000 acres) tract of land, Coorain (aboriginal word for "windy place"), which was eventually expanded into 129 square kilometres (32, 000 acres). On Coorain she lived a lonely life, and grew up without playmates except for her brothers. She was schooled entirely by her mother and a country governess. Conway spent her youth working the sheep station; by age seven, she was an important member of the workforce, helping with such activities as herding and tending the sheep, checking the perimeter fences and lugging heavy farm supplies around. The farm prospered until a drought that would last for seven years. This and her father's worsening health put an increasing burden on her shoulders. But this ended abruptly when she was 11 and her father drowned in a diving accident while trying to extend the farm's water piping. Initially Conway's mother, a nurse by profession, refused to leave Coorain. But after three more years of drought she was compelled to move Jill and her brothers to Sydney, to allow them to lead a normal life. Conway found the local state school a rough environment. The British manners and accent ingrained by her parents clashed with her peers' Australian habits, provoking taunts and jeers. This resulted in her mother enrolling her at Abbotsleigh, a private girls school, where Conway found intellectual challenge and social acceptance. After finishing her education at Abbotsleigh, she enrolled at the University of Sydney where she studied History and English and graduated with honours in 1958. Upon graduation, Conway sought a trainee post in the Department of External Affairs, but the all-male committee turned down her application. After this setback she travelled through Europe with her now emotionally volatile mother. In 1960 she decided to strike out on her own and move to the United States. At age 25, she was accepted into the Harvard University history program. There she assisted a Canadian professor, John Conway, who became her husband until his death in 1995. Conway received her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1969 and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1975. Her book True North deals about her time in Toronto. From 1975-1985 Conway was the president of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received thirty-eight honorary degrees and awards from North American and Australian colleges, universities and women's organizations.In 1975 Conway became the first woman president of Smith College, the largest women's college in the United States. Located in Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith is a private liberal arts college and is the only women's college in the U.S. to grant its own degrees in engineering. One of Conway's most notable accomplishments is a program she instigated to help students on welfare. At the time many students who were also welfare mothers were no.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Random House, 1998. First edition, stated. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 205 pp. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Previous owner name. Near fine in near fine dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 8vo. pp [viii], 205, [8]. First edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's brown boards lettered in silver at spine.ISBN: 0679445935 Very good in very good dust jacket, with some rubbing at spine ends of book and jacket.