{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-life-writing-paperback","title":"The Ethics of Life Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul John Eakin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us that we live in an age of memoir, life histories are commanding attention in many academic and professional disciplines, including anthropology, history, journalism, medicine, and psychology, as well as literary studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of Life Writing\u003c\/i\u003e explore such questions. They focus chiefly on autobiography and biography, but their findings apply to all \"life writing\"--the entire class of literature in which people tell life stories. Their forms include case studies, diaries, ethnographies, interviews, and profiles. The essays are enhanced by an introduction that provides an overview of the volume, including a section on life writing vis-à-vis privacy and the law, and an afterword that looks at the essays in relation to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul John Eakin is Ruth N. Halls Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHow Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves, \u003c\/i\u003e also from Cornell, \u003ci\u003eThe New England Girl: Cultural Ideals in Hawthorne, Stowe, Howells\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJames, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention, Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eOn Autobiography by Philippe Lejeune\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.98 x 6.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52694963945779,"sku":"9780801488337","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RFJuUy9Wb1NaakRucUFvTUVESTdqdz09.webp?v=1763078379","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-ethics-of-life-writing-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}