{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-life-writing-paperback-softback-9780801488337","title":"The Ethics of Life Writing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801488337","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Ethics of Life Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul John Eakin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801488337\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the nature of the author's obligation to her subject and to her audience? \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, skillfully edited by Paul John Eakin, addresses this fundamental question. The book is the result of eleven prominent 'life writers' writing, presenting, arguing, and re-writing their ideas on the ethics of writing from real life.... Each essay in this collection motivated me to find a pen and underline the wisdom. Every writer who has ever asked, Do I feel right about this' will benefit from the reading of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Baltimore Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are commanding attention in many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology, history, journalism, medicine, and psychology, as well as literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e explore such questions. They focus chiefly on autobiography and biography, but their findings apply to all \"life writing\"—the entire class of literature in which people tell life stories. Their forms include case studies, diaries, ethnographies, interviews, and profiles. The essays are enhanced by an introduction that provides an overview of the volume, including a section on life writing vis-à-vis privacy and the law, and an afterword that looks at the essays in relation to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mapping the Ethics of Life Writing\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Paul John Eakin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Telling the Truth in Autobiography, Biography, and History\u003c\/b\u003e1. Arguing with Life Stories: The Case of Rigoberta Menchú\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Paul Lauritzen\u003c\/i\u003e2. Misremembering Ted Hughes\u003cbr\u003e by Diane Middlebrook\u003cb\u003ePart II. Life Writing as Moral Inquiry\u003c\/b\u003e3. Life Writing as Narrative of the Good: Father and Son and the Ethics of Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby David Parker\u003c\/i\u003e4. Judging and Not Judging Parents\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby John D. Barbour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Representing Others: Trust and Betrayal\u003c\/b\u003e5. Friendship, Fiction, and Memoir: Trust and Betrayal in Writing from One's Own Life\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Claudia Mills\u003c\/i\u003e6. Decent and Indecent: Writing My Father's Life\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Richard Freadman\u003c\/i\u003e7. The Ethics of Betrayal: Diary of a Memoirist\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Nancy K. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Acts of Resistance: Telling Counterstories\u003c\/b\u003e8. Mapping Lives: \"Truth,\" Life Writing, and DNA\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Alice Wexler\u003c\/i\u003e9. Moral Non-fiction: Life Writing and Children's Disability\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Arthur W. Frank\u003c\/i\u003e10. When Life Writing Becomes Death Writing: Disability and the Ethics of Parental Euthanography\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby G. Thomas Couser\u003c\/i\u003e11. Tales of Consent and Descent: Life Writing as a Fight against an Imposed Self-Image\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Marianne Gullestad\u003c\/i\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Craig Howes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676718625048,"sku":"9780801488337","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ethics-of-life-writing-paperback-softback-9780801488337","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}