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

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This book brings together the disciplines of history and psychology. It is the first study to apply attachment theory to self-narratives of the past, namely examples of life-writing (letters and proto-autobiographies) from medieval England, written in broad religious contexts. It examines whether God could appear as an adequate attachment figure in times of high mortality and often inadequate childrearing practices, and whether the emphasis on God's proximity to believers benefited their psychological reorganisation. The main method of enquiry is discourse analysis based on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) coding.

Biography, Autobiography, Life-Writing --- Cultural History --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Medieval History --- Religious Studies

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While aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria, Julia Velten analyzes the way in which these people experience age(ing) and shows how these experiences can contribute to our understanding of age. Situated at the intersection of aging studies and medical humanities, the study explores what extraordinary age(ing) can tell us about aging processes in general.

Aging. --- Aging Studies. --- American Studies. --- Body. --- Centenarians. --- Cultural Studies. --- Illness Narratives. --- Life Writing. --- Literature. --- Medicine. --- Progeria.

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An account of the author's triple careers in academia, and services to two distinct governments of Liberia - William R. Tolbert's and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's (consultant). Situated between the crisis years of the True Whig Party (TWP) regime, and the hopeful years of the first post-civil war government, stands more than three decades of teaching, research and public intellectual engagement. More than an impressionistic account, the author employs a rich repertoire of unpublished documents that include his personal cabinet notes and a wide range of government papers. His personal research papers acquired from archival research and interviews over the years supplement these. It is this rich background material that enables the telling of a fascinating story of the tensions within the TWP regime on the eve of the bloody 1980 coup, and in the process, paints enlightening portraits of such key players as Tolbert and his finance minister, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, among a host of others. Included as well are some specifics of the 1979 "rice riots" and its impact on the politics of change. Discoveries are also unearthed about the author's role in racially integrating and internationalizing an American Episcopal/Anglican University in rural Tennessee. Among the questions explained are: Who was President Tolbert? What sort of finance minister to Tolbert was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf? Who was C. Cecil Dennis? Who was Jackson Fiah Doe? Who was Bacchus Matthews? How did the forces for change interact with those of the status quo in the 1970s? What were some of the forces at play in the reform attempts in the early 2000s? All things considered, what are Liberia's prospects going forward?

African Studies --- Biography, Autobiography, Life-Writing --- Contemporary History --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Sociology & Anthropology --- Dunn, D. Elwood

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Autobiography --- Biography as a literary form --- Autobiography. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Authorship --- Authorship. --- life writing --- cultural studies --- gender studies --- biography --- autobiography