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Tag Archives: Meditations
The Authority and Authenticity of a Mother: Anne Bradstreet
In the book Reading Autobiography by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, the authors present the concepts of authority and authenticity as completely interrelated. The author’s authority (granted by the readers and based off of the writer’s own “personal knowledge … Continue reading
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My Truth is Your Truth in the Puritan Self
In Reading Autobiography, Smith and Watson explore the ways that “Structuring Modes of Self-Inquiry” affect a text (90). In this, the writers engage with the idea that the use of conventional structures in writing, or of original ones, can be … Continue reading
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