The Meaning of Lives: Biography, Autobiography, and the Spiritual QuestCassell, 1997 - 225 pages This study examines how the process of reading and writing other people's lives implicates readers and authors in what is ultimately an endeavour of autobiographical introspection and reflection. The book starts from the assumption that the use of writing and reading about individual lives in recent scholarship in religion, the human sciences and literary biography has greatly revived interest in the personal, concrete and meaningful side of the study of world religions. |
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Searching for coherent character | 18 |
Sensing fateful irony | 31 |
Erik Erikson as a lifewriterreader | 44 |
Copyright | |
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