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Memoir - An Introduction (Hardcover)
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Each year brings a glut of new memoirs, ranging from works by
former teachers and celebrity has-beens to disillusioned soldiers
and bestselling novelists. In addition to becoming bestsellers in
their own right, memoirs have become a popular object of inquiry in
the academy and a mainstay in most MFA workshops. Courses in what
is now called life-writing study memoir alongside personal essays,
diaries, and autobiographies. Memoir: An Introduction proffers a
concise history of the genre (and its many subgenres) while taking
readers through the various techniques, themes, and debates that
have come to characterize the ubiquitous literary form. Its
fictional origins are traced to eighteenth-century British novels
like Robinson Crusoe and Tom Jones; its early American roots are
examined in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and
eighteenth-century captivity narratives; and its ethical conundrums
are considered with analyses of the imbroglios brought on by the
questionable claims in Rigoberta Menchu's I, Rigoberta, and more
notoriously, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces. Alongside these
more traditional literary forms, Couser expands the discussion of
memoir to include film with what he calls "documemoir" (exemplified
in Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect), and graphic narratives like Art
Spiegleman's Maus. In sum, Memoir: An Introduction provides a
succinct and comprehensive survey to today's most popular form of
life-writing.
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