My approach foregrounds textual production throughout the term. We view all the print autobiographies from this angle, as we dissect the writer's rhetorical choices and their effects. We examine both form and content, eventually discovering that their separation is a largely artificial one. For example, in Jerry Garcia's autobiography, Harrington Street, we find "anecdoubts," stories and snippets of memories from Jerry's childhood, which are electrified through the self-produced, computer-manipulated images. An integral part of the "story" is the way it is framed by images, then. Other texts are much more verbally focused.

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