Format:
1 online resource (138 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780804040297
Content:
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- This Writing Life Now Is What I've Lived For: An Introduction -- 1. From Autobiography to Memoir -- 2. Discovering a New Literary Form -- 3. The Past Is Never Over -- 4. The Voice of Childhood -- 5. Myth-Making in Memoir -- 6. The Writer as Archeologist -- 7. Sudden Memoir (1) -- 8. Sudden Memoir (2) -- 9. What Is Telling the Truth? -- 10. Which Life Am I Supposed to Live? -- 11. Memoir and the Inauthentic -- 12. Two Selves Authenticated -- 13. The Trouble with Narrative -- 14. The World the Self Inherits -- 15. A Memoir Culture -- Notes -- Memoirs -- Works Cited.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804011013
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804011013
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
