These proceedings of the international 2006 symposium ‘The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature’ at Haliç University, Istanbul, include the majority of contributions to this event, some of them heavily revised for publication. A first group, treatments of more comprehensive and/or theoretical aspects of life and travel writing, concerns genre history (Nazan Aksoy; Manfred Pfister), typology (Manfred Pfister; Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson), issues of narration (Gerald P. Mulderig; Rana Tekcan), the recent phenomenon of blogging (Leman Giresunlu), and therapeutic narrative (Wendy Ryden). A second group—whose concern often heavily overlaps with the first in that it also pursues theoretical goals—concentrates on individual authors and artists: Sabâ Altinsay and Dido Sotiriou (Banu Özel), Samuel Beckett (Oya Berk), the sculptor Alexander Calder (Barbara B. Zabel), G. Thomas Couser and his filial memoir, Moris Farhi (Bronwyn Mills), Jean Genet (Clare Brandabur), Henry James (Laurence Raw), Orhan Pamuk (Dilek Doltas; Ayse F. Ece), Sylvia Plath (Richard J. Larschan), Edouard Roditi (Clifford Endres), Sara Rosenberg (Claire Emilie Martin), the dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai (Leena Chandorkar), Alev Tekinay (Özlem Ögüt), Uwe Timm (Jutta Birmele), and female British and American Oriental travellers (Tea Jansson).
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"[. . .] contains several gems that will, no doubt, be referred to frequently by future students. [. . .] a thought-provoking and insightful collection that will remain a useful work of reference for some time to come, and is, moreover, an enjoyable volume of papers [. . .]" --Journal of Historical Biography 3.1 (Spring 2008)
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"[. . .] the strengths of the most successful essays in Life Writing: an at once rigorous and creative approach, and a willingness to confront the complexities of an unruly category of narrative. [. . .] an insightful overview of trends in contemporary life writing scholarship."
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