Life Lecture - Credits

Credits

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Citations

childhood

"...childhood is given almost no discussion and, more significantly, allowed no influence on adult personality or behaviour..."
Mary Evans, Missing Persons: The impossibility of auto/biography (London: Routledge, 1999) p.135

"...faced with this world of faithful and complicated objects..."
Roland Barthes, Mythologies trans. by Annette Lavers (London: Vintage, 1993) p.54

"For many years I claimed that I could remember things seen at the time of my own birth."
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask trans. by Meredith Weatherby (London: Panther, 1972) p.7

"Put yourself in the child's place for a minute."
Benjamin McLane Spock, Baby and Child Care illust. by Dorothea Fox (London: Bodley Head, 1969) p.449

"The horror of my boyhood was that I knew a time would come when"
Quoted in Andrew Birkin, J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys (London: Yale University Press, 2003) p.7

family

"I think that the hallucination of an ideal family..."
Therese Lichtenstein, 'Images of the Maternal: An interview with Barbara Kruger' in Donna Bassin and Margaret Honey and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan eds., Representations of Motherhood (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994) p.199

"To be at all is to be her Philip..."
Philip Roth, Patrimony: A True Story (London: Vintage, 1999) p.19

"In front of the photograph of my mother as a child..."
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida trans. by Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 1993) p.96

"...the more I think about it, the more I believe [my father] thought the only hope for me as a man"
Edward Said, Out of Place: A Memoir (London: Granta Books, 1999) p.294

"This is pretty much the tradition, everyone's used to it. Some people see it as a sexist tradition..."
Anonymous, 'Name changing options' Wedding Planning Advice www.hitched.co.uk [accessed 3 January 2002]

dreams & fictions

"I ought to give a different name to each of the selves..."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.2 p.610

"I thought - as you do when you read a very long book - how am I going to live without this?"
Jacqueline Rose quoted in Frances Williams, 'Out and Proust: Jacqueline Rose on reworking Albertine' Time Out 24-31 October 2001, p.114

"We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep..."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.4 p.442

"Although the study of dream-symbols is far from being complete..."
Sigmund Freud, 'On Dreams' in Harrison, C and Wood, P (eds), Art in Theory 1900-1990 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992) p.33

"I had a dream that I was on a soccer team..."
Kay Turner (ed.) I Dream of Madonna: Women's Dreams of the Goddess of Pop (London: Thames & Hudon, 1993) p.76

places & objects

"Inside this house, I have felt safe for the first time."
Jacqueline Rose Albertine (London: Chatto & Windus, 2001) p.113

"The function of the heirloom is to weave, quite literally..."
Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984) p.137

"I certainly believed, rocking my daughter on this Wednesday afternoon..."
Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature (London: Granta Books, 1984 repr. 1990) p.41

"The Photograph does not call up the past..."
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida trans. by Richard Howard (London: Vintage, 1993) p.82

"The mug was pale blue porcelain; a delicate floral design..."
Philip Roth, Patrimony: A True Story (London: Vintage, 1999) p.27

memories

"I don't know where the break is in the threads that tie me to my childhood."
George Perec, W or The Memory of Childhood trans. by David Bellos (London: The Harvill Press, 1996) p.12

"My two earliest memories are not entirely implausible"
George Perec, W or The Memory of Childhood trans. by David Bellos (London: The Harvill Press, 1996) p.13

"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers"
Gabriel Garc¡a Márquez, Living to tell the tale (London: Penguin, 2008) p.iv

"There is no continuous identity between these [personal souvenir] objects and their referents."
Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984) p.145

"The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect..."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.1 p.51

self-awareness

"We cannot tolerate the ambiguity of human existence..."
Mary Evans, Missing Persons: The impossibility of auto/biography (London: Routledge, 1999) p.143

"Interestingly, in everyday affairs, one is not always aware..."
Erving Goffman, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organisation of Experience (London: Penguin, 1974) p.129

"Will you tell me, Bartleby, where were you born?"
Herman Melville, Bartleby (London: Penguin, 1995) p.24

"I get jealousy attacks all the time."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Florida: Harvest, 1975) p.49

"Marvell compared his friend Milton to Tiresias."
Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self Portrait and Other Ruins trans. by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas (London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993) p.128

transformative moments

"I have never known who I really was. From where I stand now..."
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz trans. by Anthea Bell (London: Penguin Books, 2002) p.60

"The souvenir of [this personal] type is intimately..."
Susan Stewart, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984) p.139

"Anything is an autobiography..."
Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (London: Virago, 1985 [1937]) p.xxiii

"You know one of the things that gets me hot is having a Q-tip in my ear."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Florida: Harvest, 1975) p.10

selling yourself

"If she had seen me, what could I have represented to her?"
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.2 p.432

"Then comes the second phase, very soon after the first"
Roland Barthes, The Rustle of Language trans. by Richard Howard (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989) p.359

"Some company recently was interested in buying my aura."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Florida: Harvest, 1975) p.77

"The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to."
Jorge Luis Borges, 'Borges and I' in Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern, A Reader ed. by SeAn Burke (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995) p.339

"Do you see a separation between your professional 'persona' and your private self?"
James Olney, 'Autobiography and the Cultural Moment: A Thematic, Historical, and Bibliographical Introduction' in Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical ed. by James Olney (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980) p.3

names

"...the proper name operates improperly in that it can still operate"
Julian Wolfreys, The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998) p.18

"... the proper name is only"
Julian Wolfreys, The Derrida Reader: Writing Performances (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998) p.17

"...the proper name [...] has other than indicative functions."
Michel Foucault 'What Is an Author?' in Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern, A Reader ed. by Sean Burke (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995) p.233

"I took a new Christian name by statutory declaration"
Jan Morris, Conundrum (London: Faber and Faber, 1974) p.114

"Thus was wafted to my ears the name of Gilberte..."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.1 p.169

futures

"...[autobiography is] a retrospective prose narrative"
Philippe Lejeune 'The Autobiographical Contract' in French Literary Theory Today ed. by Tzvetan Todorov, trans. by R. Carter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) p.193. Excerpted from the French original Le pacte autobiographique by Philippe Lejeune (Paris: áditions de Seuil, 1975)

"My horoscope, cast by a neighborhood astrologer..."
Bharati Mukherjee, 'A Four-Hundred-Year-Old-Woman' in Critical Fictions: The Politics of Imaginative Writing Dia Center for the Arts, Discussions in Contemporary Culture Number 7 ed. by Philomena Mariani (Seattle: Bay Press, 1991) p.24

"Death is an act that can only achieve..."
Peggy Phelan 'Andy Warhol: Performances of Death in America' in Performing the Body: Performing the Text ed. by Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson eds (London: Routledge, 1999), 223-236 (p.229)

"When I reflected that [the] trees - pear-trees, apple-trees, tamarisks - would outlive me..."
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vols 1-6 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Vintage, 1996) Vol.4 p.476

"I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy..."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Florida: Harvest, 1975) p.113