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The Memoir and the Memoirist - Reading and Writing Personal Narrative (Hardcover)
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The Memoir and the Memoirist - Reading and Writing Personal Narrative (Hardcover)
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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. In The 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 author's past, an intimate story concerned more with who is
remembering, and why, than with what is remembered. The Memoir and
the Memoirist touches on the nuances of memory, of finding and
telling the truth, and of disclosing one's deepest self. It
explores the craft and purpose of personal narrative by looking in
detail at more than a dozen examples by writers such as Mary Karr,
Frank McCourt, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Mark Doty, Nuala
O'Faolain, Rick Bragg, and Joseph Lelyveld to show what they reveal
about themselves. Larson also opens up his own writing and that of
his students to demonstrate the hidden mechanics of the writing
process. For both the interested reader of memoir and the writer
wrestling with the craft, The Memoir and the Memoirist provides
guidance and insight into the many facets of this provocative and
popular art form.
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