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Phyllis E. Wachter
Bio: Phyllis E. Wachter is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life writing & Biography. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 22 publications receiving 106 citations.
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TL;DR: A survey of dissertations, periodicals, reviews, articles, and books dealing with the many aspects of life-writing that have appeared in previous fall issues of Biography from 1985 through 1988 can be found in this article.
Abstract: This year's bibliography continues the survey of dissertations, periodicals, reviews, articles, and books dealing with the many aspects of life-writing that have appeared in previous fall issues of Biography from 1985 through 1988. It includes works written from 1986 through 1989, including studies of the theory and practice of biography and autobiography, as well as reports of conferences and special issues of periodicals devoted to life-writing. Works by and about women continue to be significant, as well as oral histories and ethical issues connected with biographers' work.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors of our own life stories have the ability to rewrite the life-texts of those human beings who have been temporarily lost or forgotten, just as collectively, we have an opportunity to help perpetuate the inclusion of the widest spectrum of human difference and diversity.
Abstract: Individually, as authors of our own life stories, we have the ability to rewrite the life-texts of those human beings who have been temporarily lost or forgotten, just as collectively, we have an opportunity to help perpetuate the inclusion of the widest spectrum of human difference and diversity. Obscuring any boundaries separating individuals from each other, the collective mindset in its most idealized form has the potential for encompassing the greatest possible universal identity.
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TL;DR: In their new Introduction, the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future as mentioned in this paper, which is a new immediacy.
Abstract: Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\
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TL;DR: There are some 20 essays in this collection authored by professionals on the current diffusion of Freudian metapsychology into other fields of study such as history, philosophy, physics and mathematics, the humanities, religion, and sociology as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: There are some 20 essays in this collection authored by professionals on the current diffusion of Freudian metapsychology into other fields of study—history, philosophy, physics and mathematics, the humanities, religion, and sociology. Stephen Toulmin's Psychoanalysis, Physics, and the Mind-body Problem is discussed by Paul Ricoeur and by Don Swanson. This tripartite essay has the tight and lucid thought of the scholar. Throughout, the reader is caught up in the vigor of the rereading of Freud's writings that is in progress in Western Europe now that three quarters of a century has elapsed since Freud's ostracism by European scholars and medical colleagues. A panoramic view of the growth of the metapsychology in America during the past 75 years is presented by John Demos in his Oedipus in America: Historical Perspectives on the Reception of Psychoanalysis in the United States . The psychohistory of America during the last two centuries is outlined in
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TL;DR: In this article, the historical setting of the Civil War and the Restoration of the Democracy are discussed. But the focus is on the Reconstruction of the United States and not on the Demos.
Abstract: Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: THE HISTORICAL SETTING 1: Civil War 2: Restoration of the Democracy 3: Recrimination PART TWO: CIVIC MEMORY 4: Remembering Amnesty 5: Loyalty to the Demos 6: Constructing a Future Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: The authors explored the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources, and showed how Victoria provided a deeply equivocal model for women's powers in and out of marriage, and how Victoria's dramatic public withdrawal after Albert's death helped to ease the monarchy's transition to an entirely symbolic role.
Abstract: Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. This text investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. Arguing that being, seeming, and appearing were crucial to Victoria's \"rule,\" the text explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. It shows how Victoria provided a deeply equivocal model for women's powers in and out of marriage, how Victoria's dramatic public withdrawal after Albert's death helped to ease the monarchy's transition to an entirely symbolic role, and how Victoria's literary self-representations influenced debates over political self-representation. Versions of Victoria are considered in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
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