Writing Your Self

Transforming personal material

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Av Myra Schneider, John Killick, John Killik

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Writing Your Self is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to explore personal material in their writing. It examines how many writers use personal subject matter in memoirs, poems, journals and novels. Part One focuses on universal experiences including childhood, identity, adult relationships and loss as well as more specific issues such as displacement and disability, physical and mental illness and abuse. Throughout the book writers, including the authors, give frank, firsthand accounts of their own experiences and how they have tackled writing about them. Part Two begins with a series of techniques for approaching personal material which include practical exercises and examples. It also considers the differences between raw and finished writing and the validity of each and offers ideas for developing work. With its wide range of writers and the exciting possibilities it offers, Writing Your Self is a definitive book for exploring personal literature and life writing.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-11-07
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt573 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor270
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781847062512

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Introduction; Part I; 1. Childhood and Relationships with Parents; 2. Identity; 3. Adult Relationships; 4. Abuse; 5. Displacement and Disability; 6. Illness; 7. Mental Illness; 8. Caring and Coping; 9. Loss; 10. Facing Death; 11. Spirituality; Part II; 12. Getting Started, Image Exploration and Basic Techniques; 13. Accessing Memories, Secret Letters, Monologues and Dialogues, Visualizations; 14. Fictionalizing, Transforming Personal Material, Dreams, Drawing as a Starting Point; 15. Keeping a Journal, Writing a Memoir, Shaping Work; 16. Finishing Work; Conclusion; Bibliography; Notes about Contributors; Acknowledgements; Index.

"The connection the arts have with suffering brings into question nothing less than their relevance to the human condition itself. The field of writing in and out of distress has developed exponentially, in the UK, over the last twenty years, and so has its bookshelf. But there's always more to be said on this important topic, and Killick and Schneider's approach, which is primarily personal, will doubtless appeal to many." - Fiona Sampson, Poet and Editor of Poetry Review