New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-352-00721-3
Verlag: Macmillan Education

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parnell, Jo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Craig, Hugh

Brien, Donna Lee

McMillen, Caroline

Sala, Michael

Douglas, Kate

McDonald, Willa

Huber, Sonya

Walker, David

Berry, Vanessa

Richards, Page

Wilkinson, Jessica

Norman, Amanda

Newport, Emma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Caroline McMillen.- Editor's Preface, Jo Parnell.- Introduction, Hugh Craig.- PART 1: FOUND LIVES: REFRAMING THE LOST, THE INANIMATE AND THE HIDDEN.- 1. Obituaries: Behind the Public Tribute, Amanda Norman.- 2. Writing the Lives of Objects and Things, Donna L. Brien.- 3. Burra's Giant Onion and the Battle of the Somme, David Walker.- 4. Revealing What It Means To Be Human: The Nature of Literary Docu-Memoir, Jo Parnell.- 5. The Struggle in Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle, Michael Sala.- PART 2: MOVING LIVES: RELOCATING IN TIME AND SPACE.- 6. Mapping Lives: (re-)making place, Sonya Huber.- 7. Spatial Experiments: Autobiographical Cartography, Vanessa Berry.- 8. Brief Encounters: Curating GIFs, Memes and Social Media for Short Story Life-Writing, Emma Newport.- 9. Biographical Lyric: Writing Lives in Poems, Page Richards.- 10. Writing Lines, Writing Lives: The Art of Poetic Biography, Jessica L. Wilkinson.- PART 3: YOUNG LIVES: NEW GROWTH.- 11. Giving Voice: A Different Approach to Life Writing, Willa McDonald.- 12. Autobiographical Writing for Children: Anh Do's The Little Helper and Malala Yousafzai’s Malala’s Magic Pencil, Kate Douglas.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Jo Parnell, is Conjoint Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Newcastle University, Australia.