Memoir : a history Hardcover wit - 2009
by Yagoda, Ben
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- Title Memoir : a history
- Author Yagoda, Ben
- Binding Hardcover wit
- Edition First Edition fi
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 291
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
- Date 2009
- Bookseller's Inventory # BING634JM30
- ISBN 9781594488863 / 159448886X
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.08 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.74 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Autobiography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009030859
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.935
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Summary
From Saint Augustine?s Confessions to Augusten Burroughs?s Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. Cultural and literary critic Ben Yagoda traces the memoir from its birth in early Christian writings and Roman generals? journals all the way up to the banner year of 2007, which saw memoirs from and about dogs, rock stars, bad dads, good dads, alternadads, waitresses, George Foreman, Iranian women, and a slew of other illustrious persons (and animals). In a time when memoir seems ubiquitous and is still highly controversial, Yagoda tackles the autobiography and memoir in all its forms and iterations. He discusses the fraudulent memoir and provides many examples from the past?and addresses the ramifications and consequences of these books. Spanning decades and nations, styles and subjects, he analyzes the hallmark memoirs of the Western tradition?Rousseau, Ben Franklin, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, among others. Yagoda also describes historical trends, such as Native American captive memoirs, slave narratives, courtier dramas (where one had to pay to NOT be included in a courtesan?s memoir). Throughout, the idea of memory and truth, how we remember and how well we remember lives, is intimately explored.
Yagoda?s elegant examination of memoir is at once a history of literature and taste, and an absorbing glimpse into what humans find interesting?one another.