|
|
Sold Out
Book Categories |
1. Journals and Diaries: Keeping a Daily Record.
On Keeping a Notebook, Joan Didion. A Voyage of Discovery, Christopher Columbus. My House in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau. Diary of a Civil War Soldier, W.P. Winans. The Mormon Migration, Priscilla Merriman Evans. Passing Thoughts,Sherwood Anderson. The Bombing of London, Virginia Woolf. A Visit with Jody, May Sarton. Down the River with Thoreau, Edward Abbey.The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank.
2. Letters: Communicating with Another.
On Inoculation with Smallpox, Voltaire. Letters to His Son, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln. A Trip on Horseback, Elinore Rupert Stewart. Chhatarpur, Central India, E.M. Forster. Letter from Africa, Isak Dinesen. Walden, E.B. White. Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. Between Sisters: An E-Mail Exchange, Denise Stodola and Sandy Rubinstein.
3. Autobiography: Composing the Self.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey. An Early Woman Doctor, Bethenia Owens-Adair. An Indian Woman Looks Back, Sarah Winnemucca. Looking Things Over, Zora Neale Hurston. Books Are My Alma Mater, Malcolm X. Where I Come From Is Like This, Paula Gunn Allen. Back, bell hooks. The Beat in the Jungle, Arthur Ashe.
4. Biography: Writing a Life.
The Butchering at Wounded Knee, John Neihardt. The Delany Sisters: Jim Crow Laws, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany (with Amy Hill Hearth). Richard Hickock: In Cold Blood, Truman Capote. Gloria Steinem: The Transforming Interlude, Carolyn G. Heilbrun. Leonard Bernstein: Beginnings for a Musical Genius, Joan Peyser. No Name Woman: My Aunt, Maxine Hong Kingston. Zora Neale Hurston: Before Her Time, Alice Walker. Daniel Boone: The Rescue, John Mack Faragher. Dian Fossey: Among the Great Apes, Sy Montgomery. Stevie Wonder: Music Is His Life, Giles Smith.
5. The Essay: Reflecting on the World.
Once More to the Lake, E. B. White. A Hanging, George Orwell. The Brown Wasps, Loren Eiseley. Lincoln Up Close, Gore Vidal. A Mask on the Face of Death, Richard Selzer. On Going Home, Joan Didion. The Fixed, Annie Dillard. Straightening Our Hair, bell hooks. Mother Tongue, Amy Tan.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Kimberly Samuelson
reviewed Life writing on March 24, 2008
Life writing
We must always remember that there are few facts more important to a successful life than establishing Blair's place in Eighteenth-Century British rhetorical theory. I can't stress this enough because the psychological-epistemological accounts of those years were at the very foundation of Blair's sense of style and eloquence. The shift away from the influence of the orator was made possible by the printing press. When 'our' minds were altered by that technology, scanning and grapheme awareness overrode the importance of active listening. The old model was 'let's listen to the speaker' while, in the modern era, 'let's read the printed word.'
How do you hold an audience using only the printed word? This is the fundamental problem. Because humans are more than those who scan a screen or printed text; they also verbalize, they also need to hear a voice. What had been the excellence of the rhetor, the one who speaks to others, is now the author, the one who writes for others. This is why we are thoroughly confused as a group of people: do we want literacy or do we want rhetoric? We need both.
Login|Complaints|Blog|Games|Digital Media|Souls|Obituary|Contact Us|FAQ
CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? CLICK HERE!!! X
You must be logged in to add to WishlistX
This item is in your Wish List
X
This item is in your Collection
Life writing
X
This Item is in Your Inventory
Life writing
X
You must be logged in to review the productsX
X
X
Add Life writing, In readings that move from personal diaries and personal letters through autobiography and biography that assumes a public readership, and finally to the essay, the reader is led through an ever-widening audience. Starting with pieces that draw entirely , Life writing to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
X
Add Life writing, In readings that move from personal diaries and personal letters through autobiography and biography that assumes a public readership, and finally to the essay, the reader is led through an ever-widening audience. Starting with pieces that draw entirely , Life writing to your collection on WonderClub |
