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Author:   Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367077082

ISBN 10:   0367077086
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Joan Ramon Resina Jean Améry: Between Critical Reason and Despair Enzo Traverso The Novel as Life Writing: Fiction and Testimony in Jorge Semprún and Imre Kertész Antonio Monegal Life – Death – Writing: Robert Walser’s Snow Images Martin Roussel Assumed Identity: Writing and Reading Testimony through and as Anne Frank Laurie McNeill Autobiographical Inscription and the Identity Assemblage Sidonie Smith Lines of Flight: Self-Writing and the Assembled Body in Kirmen Uribe’s Bilbao-New York-Bilbao William Viestenz How to Stay Alive in Your Own Story – Ulysses in Dante and Homer Jan Söffner Life in the Dream: Freud’s Self-Display through Screen Cultural Memories Joan Ramon Resina Writing Oneself as Another – Writing Another as Oneself: Julia Kristeva and Teresa of Ávila Jenny Haase Painting Faces: A Swedish Portraitist and his Native American Subjects in 18th-century North America Linda Haverty Rugg The Afterlife of a Disaster: Everest 1996 Memoirs as Gendered Testimony Julie Rak Self-Writings and Egodocuments: Personal memoirs in Catalonia (16th-19th centuries) Oscar Jané

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Joan Ramon Resina teaches in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he directs the Iberian Studies Program at the Europe Center. Visiting appointments in Berlin, Mexico D.F., Valencia, and New York. Awards include the Donald Andrews Whittier Fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center, the Fulbright fellowship, the Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship, a Wien International Scholarship, a DAAD grant, fellowships at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig and at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne, the Serra d’Or prize for literary criticism, the Omnium Cultural award (Ex Aequo with the European TV channel Arte), and the Literary Criticism Award of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. He has published extensively in professional journals and collective volumes. Between 1998 and 2004 he was general editor of Diacritics. Select books include: The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory and Denial in Spanish Society (Liverpool UP, 2017), Josep Pla: The World Seen in the Form of Articles (Toronto UP, 2017), Barcelona’s Vocation of Modernity: Rise and Decline of an Urban Image (Stanford UP, 2008), Del Hispanismo a los Estudios Ibéricos. Una propuesta federativa para el ámbito cultural (2009), El postnacionalisme en el mapa global (Angle Editorial, 2005), El cadáver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del desencanto (Anthropos, 1997), Los usos del clásico (Anthropos, 1991), Un sueño de piedra: Ensayos sobre la literatura del modernismo europeo (Anthropos, 1990). He is the editor of ten other essay collections.

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