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Shameful Autobiographies: Shame in Contemporary Australian Autobiographies and Culture
Perhaps it is this element of risk, together with the magnetism of another person's confession of shameful experience, that make us such avid readers of autobiography.
Rosamund Dalziell proposes that shame is the driving force in many Australian autobiographies. Indeed, she suggests that the representation of shame is fundamental to the autobiographical process. Shame seek
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312 pages
Published
August 1st 1999
by Melbourne University Publishing
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The author chose excellent examples (I found some memoirs I definitely want to read) but the analysis is lackluster because of a failure to address the forms of autobiography (much of the discussion is about forms of memoir without discussion of what that means) and because of a definition of shame that is very one-dimensional.
If the reader is interested in the topic of shame, I would suggest getting clear on the format of memoir, reading Shame for a "family resemblance" theory of shame that allo ...more
If the reader is interested in the topic of shame, I would suggest getting clear on the format of memoir, reading Shame for a "family resemblance" theory of shame that allo ...more
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