| dc.contributor.author | Dudar, Judith Ann. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:36:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1994 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1994 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN98837 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55437 | |
| dc.description | The autobiographies of three men who are Canadian by birth or by choice--Will James's Lone Cowboy, Grey Owl's Pilgrims of the Wild, and Frederick Philip Grove's In Search of Myself--provide examples of self histories that have achieved popular acceptance and merit critical re-evaluation. Called autobiographies by their authors, and accepted as such by their readers, the stories of their lives as presented by James (Ernest Dufault): 1892-1942, Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney): 1880-1938, and Grove (Felix Paul Greve): 1879-1948 do not conform to the demands or to the traditional conventions associated with autobiography. In part, each story tells of the author's life as he claimed to have lived it (his life-story) and, in part, each story tells of the life as it was lived. | en_US |
| dc.description | The introduction includes a short history of each man, but it also presents a range of problems and approaches associated with a discussion of veracity in autobiography. Chapter One is an overview of theory and criticism of autobiography. Chapter Two introduces the application of concepts from other disciplines, particularly sociologist Erving Goffman's principles involved in "presentation of self" to autobiography and Joel Fineman's terms "anecdotal hole" and "historeme" when considering the historical implications of autobiography. Each of the third, fourth, and fifth chapters deals with one of the three authors, discussing the way that he presents himself and the way that he draws upon his past. The concluding chapter considers the ideas and examples brought forth in the earlier chapters and suggests that the three Canadians are not exceptional in their approaches to telling their life-stories, but that they provide examples of the way that the self and personal history frequently are presented in autobiography. | en_US |
| dc.description | Beyond the discussion of the three autobiographers and their work, this thesis offers two other aspects for consideration. It shows that criticism based on actual autobiographies, rather than on theories of autobiography, may allow acceptance of a broader range of life writing--acceptance based on what an autobiography is, rather than on what theorists say it should be. It also encourages the promotion of the acceptance of Canadian examples in critical discussion of autobiography. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1994. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Biography. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Literature, Canadian (English). | en_US |
| dc.title | Feint of heart and sleight of hand: Autobiographical art and artifice in the life-stories of Will James, Grey Owl, and Frederick Philip Grove. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
