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I want to know what I am, what I want, what I can do, what is real, what is lovely."0The post-war British artist Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was not only a supremely accomplished painter; he was an impassioned, eloquent writer. 'Image of a Man' is the first book to provide a comprehensive critical reading of Vaughan's extraordinary journal, which spans thirty-eight years and sixty-one volumes to form a major literary work and a fascinating document of changing times.0From close textual analysis of the original manuscripts, this book uncovers the attitudes and arguments that shaped and reshaped Vaughan's identity as a man and as an artist. It reveals a continual process of self-construction through journal-writing, undertaken to navigate the difficulties of conscientious objection, the complications of desire as a gay man, and the challenges of making meaningful art.0By focussing on Vaughan's journal-writing in the context of its many influences and its centrality to his art practice, 'Image of a Man' offers not only a compelling new critical biography of a significant yet underappreciated artist, but also a sustained argument on the constructed nature of the `artist' persona in early and mid-twentieth-century culture - and the opportunities afforded by journal and diary forms to make such constructions possible.

Painters --- Literary theory. --- Vaughan, Keith, --- England. --- life-writing --- twentieth-century British art --- diaries --- queerness --- Keith Vaughan

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Zwar ist die literarische Gattung der «Autobiographie» eine neuzeitliche Erfindung, doch schrieben bereits politische Akteure in der späten römischen Republik über ihr Leben und verorteten dieses im Zusammenhang mit den politischen Veränderungen der Zeit. Die Autorin untersucht exemplarisch das life writing Ciceros und des Augustus, um Bedingungen, Strukturen und Ziele des Schreibens über den eigenen Lebenslauf zu eruieren. Sie nimmt sowohl De vita sua-Schriften und commentarii als auch andere Textsorten in den Blick und zeigt, wie die Autoren mit Form und Inhalt experimentierten, um ihr Ansehen bei den Zeitgenossen durch die Festschreibung grosser Taten zu heben und die Erinnerung an diese fortdauern zu lassen. Die Untersuchung verdeutlicht, dass Texte des life writing jeweils eng mit dem politischen Kontext verbunden waren. Zudem werden die Strategien offensichtlich, mit denen der Lebenslauf abhängig von den geltenden sozialen Normen sinnhaft konstruiert wurde.

life writing --- life story --- Autobiografie --- Cicero --- Augustus --- römische Republik --- Prinzipat --- Nobilität

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This is a highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. It provides a new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.

Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Social conditions --- Isham, Elizabeth, --- Autobiography. --- Elizabeth Isham. --- Family History. --- Gender. --- Life-Writing. --- Patriarchy. --- Piety. --- Reading. --- Singlehood.

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Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.

Literary form. --- Personality in literature. --- Resilience (Personality trait) --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Human Resilience. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Writing. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Society.

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Be resilient! Today, we hear this line in almost any context. The term resilience is among the most repeated buzzwords. But why, simply, do we need to be resilient? Hamideh Mahdiani presents answers to this question by challenging a reductionistic understanding of resilience from single disciplinary perspectives; by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept; and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience. In so doing, through a multidisciplinary frame of reference, the book works with various examples from life writing and life sciences, and testifies to the focal role of narrative studies in resilience research.

Literary form. --- Personality in literature. --- Resilience (Personality trait) --- American Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Human Resilience. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Writing. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Society.