Life writing : a writers' & artists' companion : writing biography, autobiography and memoir /
| المؤلفون الرئيسيون: | , |
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| سلاسل: | Writers' & artists' companion
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1717390 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Cover; Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion; Imprint Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion; Part One: Life Writing; Part Two: Tips & Tales; Part Three: Write On; Introduction; Why do People Read Life Writing?; Part 1: Life Writing; Reflections 1; 1. A Note; 2. Alarums and Invasions; 3. Ethics and legality; 4. Truth and Objectivity; 5. Art and Evidence; Reflections 2; 1. Reflections on the Role of a Life Writer; 2. Reflections on Myth and Memory; 3. Reflections on Truth; 4. Reflections on Telling Stories, Telling Facts; Tradition.
- BiographyBeginnings; Middle Ages; The Renaissance; The Seventeenth Century; The Early Eighteenth Century; The Eighteenth Century: The Arrival of Modern Biography; Victorian Blight; The Early Twentieth Century; Between the Wars; The Post-War Period; Biography in Fiction; Autobiography; What is Autobiography?; Why do People Write Autobiographies?; Where to Start; History and Development of Contemporary Autobiographies; Are All Autobiographies Written by their Subjects?; Autobiographical Writing in other Genres; Changes; Autobiographical Novels; Autobiography in Creative Non-Fiction.
- Autobiographical PoetryExploitation; Memoir 1; Travel and Adventure; War and Holocaust; Frauds, Fakes and Fiction; Memoir 2; What Distinguishes Memoir from Autobiography?; Types of Memoirs; Family and Childhood Memoirs; Misery Memoirs; Illness; Diaries, Blogs, Twitters; Part 2: Tips and Tales; Guest Contributions; Diana Athill; Alan Bennett; Alain de Botton; Jill Dawson; Millicent Dillon; Margaret Drabble; Geoff Dyer; Victoria Glendinning; Lyndall Gordon; Peter Hayter; Richard Holmes; Michael Holroyd; Kathryn Hughes; Diane Johnson; Hermione Lee; Andrew Lownie; Janet Malcolm.
- Alexander MastersNancy Milford; Blake Morrison; Andrew Morton; Clare Mulley; Jenni Murray; Nicholas Murray; Kristina Olsson; Marion Elizabeth Rodgers; Meryle Secrest; Miranda Seymour; Frances Spalding; Hilary Spurling; Boyd Tonkin; Edmund White; Part 3: Write On; Planning; Important General Points for All Life Writers; 1. Planning a Biography; How to Choose a Subject; Checking Out; Level of Work; Extra Skills You May Need to Acquire; Types of Biography; Practical Issues, Especially Cost; 2. Planning a Memoir; Cost of Writing Memoirs; 3. Planning an Autobiography.
- Cost of Writing an Autobiography4. When you Have Decided on your Biography, Memoir or Autobiography; Planning Proposals for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir; Choosing Titles for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir; Grants and Other Sources of Funding for Biography, Autobiography and Memoir; Other Helpful Information at the General Planning Stage; Mentoring; Literary Consultancies; Courses; Journals; Organisations; Planning your Writing
- all Genres; 1. Referential Matter; 2. Use of Preface and Prologue for Biographies, Memoirs and Autobiographies; Preface.