But Enough About Me : Why We Read Other People's Lives

Nancy K. Miller

ISBN 10: 0231125232 / ISBN 13: 9780231125239

Edité par Columbia University Press Aug 2002, 2002

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Neuware - In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics, and activists. Miller's recollections form one woman's installment in a collective memoir that is still unfolding, an intimate page of a group portrait in process.

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• Titre: But Enough About Me : Why We Read Other People's Lives
• Éditeur: Columbia University Press Aug 2002
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0231125232
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780231125239
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 232 L x 152 H x 12 P (en millimètres) 232 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 12 millimètres de profondeur

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In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics, and activists. Miller's recollections form one woman's installment in a collective memoir that is still unfolding, an intimate page of a group portrait in process.

À propos de l?auteur

Nancy Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-editor of the Gender and Culture series. Her books include the landmark The Poetics of Gender (ed., Columbia UP, 1987), Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1989), Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991), Bequests and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Death (Oxford UP, 1996), But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia UP, 2002), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (co-editor, Columbia UP, 2011), and others.