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Justifiable Conduct: Self-Vindication in Memoir
Author(s): Erich Goode (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: 3 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1439910251
- ISBN-13: 9781439910252
Book Description
How memoirs justify deviant behavior from crime to sex to politics
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Erich Goode’s Justifiable Conduct is a deeply considered and wildly fascinating look into the craft of memoir. This book should be required reading for those who read, write, love, or loathe memoir. This important contribution to a genre that has become a heated topic of debate, in both literary circles and popular culture, is a must read.”—Emily Rapp, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; member of the MFA faculty at the University of California, Riverside; and writer
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.
