New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques. Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative non-fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-22
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
MedarbetareMcMillen,Caroline
ISBN9781352007213

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Foreword, Caroline McMillenEditor's Preface, Jo ParnellIntroduction, Hugh CraigPART 1: FOUND LIVES: REFRAMING THE LOST, THE INANIMATE AND THE HIDDEN1. Obituaries: Behind the Public Tribute, Amanda Norman2. Writing the Lives of Objects and Things, Donna L. Brien3. Burra's Giant Onion and the Battle of the Somme, David Walker4. Revealing What It Means To Be Human: The Nature of Literary Docu-Memoir, Jo Parnell5. The Struggle in Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, Michael SalaPART 2: MOVING LIVES: RELOCATING IN TIME AND SPACE6. Mapping Lives: (re)making place, Sonya Huber7. Spatial Experiments: Autobiographical Cartography, Vanessa Berry8. Brief Encounters: Curating GIFs, Memes and Social Media for Short Story Life-Writing, Emma Newport9. Biographical Lyric: Writing Lives in Poems, Page Richards10. Writing Lines, Writing Lives: The Art of Poetic Biography, Jessica L. WilkinsonPART 3: YOUNG LIVES: NEW GROWTH11. Giving Voice: A Different Approach to Life Writing, Willa McDonald12. Autobiographical Writing for Children: Anh Do's The Little Helperand Malala Yousafzai’s Malala’s Magic Pencil, Kate Douglas.