Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing Personal Narrative

Name: Memoir and the Memoirist Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
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ISBN: 9780804011013

ISBN-10: 080401101X

ISBN-13: 9780804011013

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Larson

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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. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. InThe Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing this new form. Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal essay to the memoir-a genre focused on a particularly emotional relationship in the authorrsquo;s past, an intimate story…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Thomas Larson is the author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative . For twelve years, he has been a staff writer for the San Diego Reader where he specializes in profiles, narrative nonfiction, and investigative journalism. A dynamic speaker, Larson presents workshops on memoir writing and lectures on Samuel Barber's music throughout the country. he lives in San Diego with his partner Suzanna Neal.



Preface


This Writing Life Now Is What I've Lived For: An Introduction



From Autobiography to Memoir



Discovering a New Literary Form



The Past Is Never Over



The Voice of Childhood



Myth-Making in Memoir



The Writer as Archeologist



Sudden Memoir (1)



Sudden Memoir (2)



What Is Telling the Truth?



Which Life Am I Supposed to Live?



Memoir and the Inauthentic



Two Selves Authenticated



The Trouble with Narrative



The World the Self Inherits



A Memoir Culture


Notes


Memoirs


Works Cited