Life Writing. Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing in Contemporary Literature. Proceedings of a Symposium Held by the Department of American Culture and Literature Halic University, Istanbul,...

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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 Alt nsay 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 Doltä Ay e 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 Ö üt), Uwe Timm (Jutta Birmele), and female British and American Oriental travellers (Tea Jansson).

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Proceedings of a Symposium Held by the Department of American Culture and Literature Halic University, Istanbul, 19-21 April 2006The studies in these proceedings grew out of the international symposium'The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: Auto/biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/modern Literature', held at Halic University, Istanbul, on 19-21 April 2006. The contributors include Manfred Pfister (18th- to 20th-Century Travel Writing), Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, (Autobiographical Hoaxes), Gerald P. Mulderig (Rhetorical Form of Biographical Narratives), Rana Tekcan (Narrative Strategies in Biography), Leman Giresunlu (Blogging as Cyber-Autobiography), Nazan Aksoy (Turkish Women's Autobiographies), Wendy Ryden (Life Writing and Healing), Laurence Raw (Henry James'Autobiogra-phy), Oya Berk (Samuel Beckett's Trilogy), Richard J. Larschan (Sylvia Plath's Self-Portrayals), G. Thomas Couser (Filial Narrative), Tea Jansson (Anglo-American Women Travellers on Oriental Women), Clifford Endres (Edouard Roditi), Bronwyn Mills (Moris Farhi's Young Turk), Clare Brandabur (Jean Genet's Un captif amoureux), Jutta Birmele (Uwe Timm), Ozlem Ogut (Alev Tekinay's Nur der Hauch vom Paradies), Claire Emilie Martin (Argentinean History Recovered), Dilek Doltas (Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul), Ayse F. Ece (Orhan Pamuk's Yeni Hayat), Banu Özel (Diaspora Experiences of Turks and Greeks), Leena Chandorkar (Mrinalini Sarabhai's Autobiography), Barbara B. Zabel (Portraits of Alexander Calder).