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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Autobiographical Fiction"”.
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Shambles & Crowley: Autobiographical Fiction in Four Panels
… of Shambles & Crowley, a collection of autobiographical fiction comic strips featuring Shambles, a burnt-out boy, Crowley, a loudmouthed crow, Franz Kafka, a silent companion, Saadat Manto, a prankster, and God, an overbearing authority figure. Drawing inspiration from comic strips such …
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Autofiction à la grecque: Greek autobiographical fiction (1971-1995)
… the emergence and development of Greek ‘autofiction’ from<br/>1971 until 1995, through the selected works of six writers: Kostas Tachtsis, Melpo Axioti, Vassilis Vassilikos, Vassilis Alexakis, Yiannis Kiourtsakis and Michel Fais.I have chosen to employ the term ‘autofiction’ (first introduced …
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Life on the margins : the autobiographical fiction of Charles Bukowski
… an alternative literary aesthetic through his fictional persona, Henry Chinaski, who struggles to overcome his suffering in a world he finds absurd, and who embarks on a quest for freedom in his youth to which he remains committed all his life. This thesis examines Charles Bukowski's …
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Displaced romanticism: searching for the self in J.M.Coetzee's autobiographical fiction
… the strategies of self-definition at work in the autobiographical fiction of J.M. Coetzee. My focus falls on those of his novels that have a more-or less explicit autobiographical resonance (Boyhood, Youth, Elizabeth Costello, Diary of a Bad Year, Summertime), with supplementary forays into two …
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Blue Silence
… Silence is the working title for my capstone, an autobiographical fiction novel. I want create a novel that is inherently personal by exposing the emotional truths behind my own life experiences. This is Edwin Forbes’s story set in Cleveland, Ohio during the early 90’s.</p>
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William Maxwell: A selected critical biography
… on William Maxwell's sixty-year career as a fiction writer, and reveals his literary life through research including his personal correspondence and interviews conducted specifically for this project. The study--which focuses on the novels They Came Like Swallows (1937), The Folded Leaf …
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Transformative Arts Practices in the Criminal Justice System. The impact of human rights violations on identity amongst those previously incarcerated
… The writing in the research is defined as autobiographical fiction or autofiction and becomes performative using TO. The core aim of this research and its process is to rewrite, redefine, or reclaim identity through performative autofiction. It unpacks the human rights violations …
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Towards National Identity: Addiction, Subjectivity, and American Literary Culture
… jazz and nightclub culture, memoirs and autobiographical fiction that promise an insider's view of addiction and its impact on everyday life, and novels of the 1980s that illumine potent connections between contemporary drug use and capitalist consumerism. The American addict-subject has …
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The autobiography of childhood and youth from Fontane to Carossa: Four case studies
… The autobiography of childhood is distinct from autobiographical fiction but includes more than the "poetical" childhood. Jean Starobinski's model of the elegiac and picaresque forms of autobiography applies to the childhood autobiography. While the structure of autobiography is preserved, there …
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Exile in the novels of Daniel Moyano
… in exile. Focus is directed toward the novel as autobiographical fiction. Also analyzed are themes on time experience sind the question of return. The author concludes that the various types of exile in Moyano's novels are a reflection of Argentine reality as the result of a lifelong scenario of …
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Poet in a hard hat: Stevie Smith and gender construction
… Paper is best understood in the context of autobiographical fiction, a genre which maintains that identities are always to some extent fictional and, therefore, subject to self-invention. Smith challenges the notion of a fixed, female essence by utilizing a strategy of multivocality. Pompey, …
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"Over the Horizon of the Years": Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House Books
… horizon behind her to write the books, which are autobiographical fiction, while projecting the optimism contained in the horizon ahead.</p><p>The first essay, "Family Folklore in Little House in the Big Woods," explores family traditions in folklore and their relationship to the general structure …
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The fiction of Christopher Isherwood: personality as form
… an author from his work. It is true that autobiographical writers invite an interest which may not be always strictly literary: while speaking in their own persons, or employing a thinly disguised narrator, they bring the art of fiction close to the intimacy of the letter or journal and …