ISBN:
9781439910252
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (221 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Justifiable Conduct : Self-Vindication in Memoir
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Deviant behavior -- History
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Conduct of life -- History
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Deviant behavior in literature -- History
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Autobiography
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Sociology -- Biographical methods
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
How do memoirists make their work interesting, daring, exciting, and unorthodox enough so that they attract an audience, yet not so heinous and scandalous that their readers are unable to empathize or identify with them? In Justifiable Conduct, renowned sociologist Erich Goode explores the different strategies memoirists use to ""neutralize"" their alleged wrongdoing and fashion a more positive image of themselves for audiences. He examines how writers, including James Frey, Susan Cheever, Roman Polanski, Charles Van Doren and Elia Kazan, explain, justify, contextualize, excuse, or
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Charles Van Doren, "Herb Stempel Was the Firstto Agree to the Fix"; Jim Bouton, "If We Explain We're Shooting Beaver,They'll Understand"; The Transgressive I, the Exculpatory Account; 2 Autobiography and Memoir; Memoir and Autobiography; The Memoir Explosion; Literal Facticity: Does It Matter?; James Frey, "I Honestly Have No Idea"; 3 Autonarrating Transgression; The "I" and the "Me"; Vocabularies of Motive; Is to Explain to Condone?; The Presentation of Self; Accounts; Techniques of Neutralization: Theory or Concept?
Description / Table of Contents:
To Whom Are Self-Exculpations Addressed?In Sum: Neutralizing Deviance; 4 Criminal Behavior; Joe Bonanno, "This Is How I Earned My Living"; Edward Bunker, "What Else Could I Do?"; Jack Henry Abbott, "If You Behave like a Man,You Are Doomed"; Jordan Belfort, "12.5 Million! In Three Minutes!"; Accounting for Crime; 5 Substance Abuse; Pete Hamill, "This Is What Men Do"; Susan Cheever, "Drinking Was Part of Our Heritage"; Steve Geng, "I Was Romanticizing Lives of Crime"; William Cope Moyers, "I Was Doomed to Fail No MatterHow Hard I Tried"; Accounting for Substance Abuse; 6 Sexual Transgressions
Description / Table of Contents:
Roman Polanski, "Everyone Wants to Fuck Young Girls"Kerry Cohen, "My Parade of Boys Continues"; Melissa Febos, "I Took Aim and Flicked the Whip toward Him"; Kirk Read, "I Wanted to Be Shirley Temple"; Accounting for Sexual Transgressions; 7 Political Deviance; Elia Kazan, "I Was Notorious, an Informant, a Squealer,a Rat"; Norman Podhoretz, "The Theory Circulated ThatI Had Gone Mad"; Malcolm X, "I Never Have Felt That I WouldLive to Become an Old Man"; Cathy Wilkerson, "The Intention Was Notto Cause Carnage but Chaos"; Accounting for Political Transgressions; 8 Accounting for Deviance
Description / Table of Contents:
How They Account for ThemselvesSearching for Common Threads; Looking Back; References; Index
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