Oscar Wilde’s novel is regarded as a sort of autobiography that brings (his) life and art together, a self-portrait offering the reader a glimpse at this Irish writer’s inner reality, a mirror that reflects not only Wilde’s image (a partial representation of his self), but also the Victorian society’s in relation to the artist/individual (reality outside the self). Our analysis focuses on the e...

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (henceforth, S&H) offers readers detailed narratives, which authors Selfe and Hawisher call "technological literacy autobiographies" (S&H, p. 7), on the development of technological literacy practices and values by twenty individuals. The goal of the volume is to examine how factors such as age, gender, ethnic ...

In his sixty-fifth year George Sanders took his own life, leaving a note saying that he was bored. Writing in her sixty-fourth year, Simone de Beauvoir is determined that she, at any rate, will not be bored by old age. This book is a tribute to her energy in researching the sociological, psychological and anthropological aspects of old age?historically and in the present day. Its length (over 5...

In the study of the history and sociology of science, there has been a relative lack of attention to one of the interesting aspects of the social process of discovery-the resistance on the part of scientists themselves to scientific discovery. General and specialized histories of science and biographies and autobiographies of scientists, as well as intensive discussions of the processes by whic...

THE SHAPE OF TIME WAS FINISHED IN 1961, which makes this year, in Maya terms, its Katun anniversary of twenty years. During these twenty years, the occasion has never arisen for me to speak in public about the book. Being. a man not prone to autobiography, and who will go out of his way to avoid looking in a mirror, I have paid little attention to the reception of the book. Here, however, on th...

In The Grammar of Autobiography, Jean Quigley makes a claim that one often hears nowadays that the self is constructed in autobiographical narrative discourse. Two things distinguish her analysis of narrative selfconstruction from many other treatments of the subject. First, she offers a genuinely interdisciplinary account, drawing on functional linguistics, theoretical and developmental psycho...

Editors’ Introduction The following reminiscence by Cedric Raine is the 10th autobiography in a series published in the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. These have been solicited from senior members of the neuropathology community who have been noted leaders and contributors to neuroscience and to the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP) and have a historical pe...