Haslam, Sara and Neale, Derek
(2009).
Life writing.
Abingdon: Routledge.
Abstract
A practice-based guide to life writing, with exercises, examples and interviews with well known biographers and autobiographers. It covers such topics as writing what you know; the borders between biography and autobiography and between these genres and fiction; using prefaces; finding a form; using memory; developing characters; using novelistic, poetic and dramatic techniques.
| Item Type: |
Authored Book
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| Copyright Holders: |
The Open University, 2009 Routledge |
| ISBN: |
0-415-46155-3, 978-0-415-46155-9 |
| Keywords: |
life writing; autobiography; biography; memoir; memory; fiction; creative writing; poetry; drama. |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
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| Item ID: |
18785 |
| Depositing User: |
Derek Neale
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| Date Deposited: |
05 Nov 2009 08:29 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 14:38 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/18785 |
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