Tag Archives: Anne Bradstreet

L is for the way you look at me…

In concert with my post from last week, Black-Out Conversion, I want to tackle another topic from Smith & Watson’s Chapter on Autobiographical Acts in their book Reading Autobiography. This time, what I referred to as the “who” interests me … Continue reading

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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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