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Shimmering Images teaches the aspiring memoirist how to locate key memories using Lisa's technique for finding, linking, and fleshing out those vibrant recollections of important moments and situations. Shimmering Images will address: the difference between memoir and autobiography; how to claim your voice; the art of storytelling; honesty, truth, and compassion in writing; authentic dialogue and the need for specificity. Readers will learn how to...
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From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. Now, in this Very Short Introduction, Lee provides a magnificent look at the genre in which she is an undisputed master-the art of biography. Here Lee considers the cultural and historical background of different types of biographies, looks at the factors that affect biographers,...
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In recent years, the memoir has been celebrated as our liveliest literary genre and condemned as the confessional mode of a self-obsessed society. Now Jill Ker Conway, herself the author of two highly praised volumes of autobiography, turns her attention to some of the most notable examples of the form since Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions sixteen centuries ago. From the luminous spirituality of twelfth-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to...
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Author of three memoirs of her own, Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as graduate writing professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt sinner," providing an irreverent window into the mechanics and art of the form. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. In addition, all those inside stories about...
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Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins...
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A multi-volume compilation of more than 200 analytical essays on and study activities for fictional and biographical works written for young adults. Includes a short biography for the author of each analyzed work. Students, teachers and librarians will welcome this excellent set, which surveys and analyzes out-standing books for young adult readers. Among the more than 600 titles (novels, short story collections, nonfiction works, and biographies)...
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