- Title
- Introduction
- Creator
- Craig, Hugh
- Relation
- New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives p. 1-11
- Relation
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/new-and-experimental-approaches-to-writing-lives-9781352007183
- Publisher
- Red Globe Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Successful life writing animates the lives of its subjects so that readers can enter into others' experiences and vicariously live lives parallel to their own. These stories, like their siblings, invented fictional stories, predate writing and go back to the dawn of language itself. There is always a balance between established and new ways to present life writing. Familiar modes of narrative take the burden off audiences, who can rely on trusted conventions and an existing shared understanding with writers, but there is also a role for innovation. New approaches catch our attention. New ways of understanding experience and new kinds of experience require new modes of expression. This book brings together a variety of innovative approaches to life writing, all dedicated to renewing and refreshing this thriving area of creative work. The chapters offer theoretical backgrounds, worked examples, and practical exercises, giving students and novices the impetus to embark on a first story and giving practised writers ways to develop new strengths and hone their technique.
- Subject
- life writing; stories; writers; expression
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445129
- Identifier
- uon:42508
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781352007183
- Language
- eng
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