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Title:

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME
WHY WE READ OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES

By:

Nancy K. Miller

Format:

Hardback

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£92.00

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ISBN 10:

0231125224

ISBN 13:

9780231125222

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Publisher:

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 July, 2002

Series:

Gender and Culture Series

Pages:

160

Description:

Nancy Miller explores the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. She also mounts a defence of the memoir against accusations of terminal narcissism by showing how the forms of life writing are as much about others as they are about their authors.

Synopsis:

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation of literary girls who came of age in the midst of profound social change and, buoyed by the energy of second-wave feminism, became writers, academics, and activists. Miller's recollections form one woman's installment in a collective memoir that is still unfolding, an intimate page of a group portrait in process.

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Columbia University Press

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