Add to ORKGLife writing is a narrative and discourse on the self from social, psychological and biographical perspectives. This special issue includes eleven essays addressing recurrent themes in life writing such as migration, medical narratives and cultural memories. Through voices of life, illness, suffering, disabilities and death, the authors not only question a traditional sense of self but also provoke further debates on human values and facets of identity formation
In this thesis I examine contemporary life writing about mental illness published in the UK and USA....
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
The first publication from Kingston University's Centre for Life Narratives, featuring papers on Mar...
The articles brought together in this special issue of Ravenshaw Journal of Literature and Culture o...
In his article “Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing,” G. Thomas Couser discusses illness a...
The article “The Voices of Life and Death in Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems” uses Shakespeare’s dedic...
Literature is generally seen as depicting the lives of human subjects through their unique narrative...
In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and hea...
This hybrid critical-creative thesis explores representations of mobility and immobility in complex ...
In our age, self-publishing, self-broadcasting, and telling stories about our own lives and the live...
This special issue on life writing and persona marks the 15th issue of Persona Studies and the culmi...
This dissertation is a collection of creative prose. It contains five short stories and two creative...
This thesis is motivated by a notable new wave – intensifying from 2007 onwards – of autobiographica...
In the field of medical sociology/anthropology, narratives of patients are widely used as an approac...
Illness narratives, pathographies and autopathographies, have been published in recent years in grea...
In this thesis I examine contemporary life writing about mental illness published in the UK and USA....
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
The first publication from Kingston University's Centre for Life Narratives, featuring papers on Mar...
The articles brought together in this special issue of Ravenshaw Journal of Literature and Culture o...
In his article “Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing,” G. Thomas Couser discusses illness a...
The article “The Voices of Life and Death in Shakespeare’s Narrative Poems” uses Shakespeare’s dedic...
Literature is generally seen as depicting the lives of human subjects through their unique narrative...
In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and hea...
This hybrid critical-creative thesis explores representations of mobility and immobility in complex ...
In our age, self-publishing, self-broadcasting, and telling stories about our own lives and the live...
This special issue on life writing and persona marks the 15th issue of Persona Studies and the culmi...
This dissertation is a collection of creative prose. It contains five short stories and two creative...
This thesis is motivated by a notable new wave – intensifying from 2007 onwards – of autobiographica...
In the field of medical sociology/anthropology, narratives of patients are widely used as an approac...
Illness narratives, pathographies and autopathographies, have been published in recent years in grea...
In this thesis I examine contemporary life writing about mental illness published in the UK and USA....
This article analyses themes from Christina Crosby’s disability memoir A Body, Undone: Living On aft...
The first publication from Kingston University's Centre for Life Narratives, featuring papers on Mar...