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Deconstructing and reconstructing lives : auto/biography in educational settings / by Lucy Townsend and Gaby Weiner.

Title
Deconstructing and reconstructing lives : auto/biography in educational settings / by Lucy Townsend and Gaby Weiner.
Author
Townsend, Lucy, 1944-
Publication
London, ON : Althouse Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Weiner, Gaby
Description
v, 384 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • Biography > Study and teaching
  • Autobiography > Study and teaching
  • Autobiographies as Topic
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-359) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • INTRODUCTION. Introduction: What is auto/biography? -- Critical issues in educational auto/biography
  • DECONSTRUCTING AUTO/BIOGRAPHY. Deconstructing obituaries, biographical dictionary essays, and chronologies -- Deconstructing biography and life writing -- Deconstructing collective biography -- Deconstructing autobiography and memoir
  • RECONSTRUCTING AUTO/BIOGRAPHY. The biographer as sleuth : using the concentric circle method -- A journey into autobiography : ordinary lessons of American girlhood -- Are these just a bunch of lies ? : searching for truth in auto/biography -- The auto/biographer in the classroom
ISBN
  • 9780920354698
  • 0920354696
OCLC
  • 697934319
  • SCSB-12181305
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library