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Black-Out Conversion
In Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography, in their chapter about autobiographical acts, I see them frame autobiography by looking at the who, what, where, when, how and why of their creation. The who is the person to which the story … Continue reading
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Tagged Autobiographical Acts, Autobiography, coaxers, coercers, Puritan, Reading Autobiography, Smith and Watson, Spiritual Autobiography, Spiritual Redemption, storytelling, Thomas Shepard
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Tell Them What They Want to Hear
Smith and Watson offer us a wealth of information hidden beneath their jargon and tie-it-up-and-torture-out-a-meaning approach to autobiography. Its quite a process to get through some of the denser material covered in “Reading Autobiography” but the result is wroth it. … Continue reading
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Tagged coaxers, coercers, homo fabulans, Reading Autobiography, storytelling
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