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"Vulnerable Subjects" explores a range of life-writing scenarios - from the "celebrity" to the "ethnographic" - and a number of life-writing genres from parental memoir to literary case studies by Oliver Sacks. G. Thomas Couser addresses complex contemporary issues; he investigates the role of disability in narratives of euthanasia and explores the implications of the Human Genome Project for life-writing practices in an age when many regard DNA as a code that "scripts" lives and shapes identity. Throughout, his book is concerned with the ethical implications of the political and economic, as well as the mimetic, aspects of life writing.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary theory

• Full title: Vulnerable Subjects
• Subtitle: Ethics and Life Writing
• Author: G.Thomas Couser
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780801488634
• ISBN: 080148863X
• ID: 04708004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 356 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 151 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. October 2003

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