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Title Biography and autobiography : essays on Irish and Canadian history and literature / edited by James Noonan ; cover design, Richard Karayanis
Published Ottawa, Canada ; Don Mills, Ontario : Carleton University Press, 1993
©1993

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I: APPROACHES TO BIOGRAPHY -- Biography and Theory, or, Beckett in the Bath -- The Nature of Irish Political Biography -- A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke
Religion and Reticence: Paul Cardinal Cullen and the Problem of Religious Biography in Ireland Writing Women into Irish History: The Biography of Fanny and Anna Parnell -- Excavating Nora -- Bio as it Auto be: from the Letters of George Bernard Shaw
Memories into Images in Modern Irish Painting II: APPROACHES TO AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- On the Nature of Autobiography -- Writing an Autobiography -- Deformation of History in Blasket Autobiographies -- Reading the Book of Himself: The Confessional Imagination of St. Augustine and Joyce
No-man's-land: Beckett's Bilingualism as AutobiographyThe Circularity of the Autobiographical Form: A Study of Seamus Heaney's 'Station Island' -- Sean O'Casey: The Life in the Letters -- III: STORIES OF THE IRISH IN CANADA -- The Follies of One and Twenty: D'Arcy McGee and Young Ireland: 1842-49
Ogle Gowan: Aspiring Statesman and Stage Irishman Isaac Weld and the Continuity of Canadian Poetry -- Theory and Fiction: The Author Comments on At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White -- Dressing Up History: A Critic Comments on Don Akenson's At Face Value -- They are treating us like mad dogs: A Donnelly Biographer's Problem
Notes "Papers presented at the 1991 Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies."
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Subject Biography as a literary form -- Congresses
Authors, Irish -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Irish -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Authors, Irish -- Biography.
Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
Irish.
SUBJECT Ireland -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Subject Canada.
Ireland.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Noonan, James, editor
Karayanis, Richard, cover designer
ISBN 9780773583726
0773583726