Authoring a Life - A Woman's Survival in and Through Literary Studies

This book begins as an autobiography, the story of an incest survivor who became an English professor, but it ends with an argument: that we must reconceptualize the language arts curriculum, from grade school through graduate school, if we are to meet the needs of our students, an alarming number of whom are survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

About the author

Brenda Daly , Associate Professor of English, Iowa State University, is the author of two books: Lavish Self-Divisions: The Novels of Joyce Carol Oates and Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectives, with Maureen T. Reddy.

Product details

• Authors: Brenda Daly
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.1998
• EAN: 9780791436806
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3680-6
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 367 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology