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Justifiable Conduct: Self-Vindication in Memoir Hardback - 2012

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Author: Goode, Erich
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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 warrant their participation in activities such as criminal behavior, substance abuse, sexual transgressions, and political radicalism.
Using a theory of deviance neutralization, Goode assesses the types of behavior exhibited by these memoirists to draw out generic narratives that are most effective in attempting to absolve the actor-author. Despite the highly individualistic and variable lives of these writers, Goode demonstrates that memoirists use a conventional vocabulary for their unconventional behavior.aa

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Title Justifiable Conduct: Self-Vindication in Memoir
Author Erich Goode
Binding Hardback
Pages 224
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Temple University Press
Publication date 2012
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9781439910252 / 1439910251
Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
Dimensions 9.28 x 6.1 x 0.71 in (23.57 x 15.49 x 1.80 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Sociological
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Autobiography, Sociology - Biographical methods
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012041438
Dewey Decimal Code 301

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About the author

Erich Goode is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. He has published ten books including Moral Panics (coauthored with Nachman Ben-Yehuda), The Paranormal, Deviant Behavior, and Drugs in American Society; seven anthologies; and articles that have appeared in magazines, newspapers, and an array of academic journals. He is a Guggenheim fellowship recipient, and he has taught at half a dozen universities, including the University of Maryland, New York University, and the University of North Carolina.

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