Life writing : a writers' & artists' companion : writing biography, autobiography and memoir / Sally Cline and Carole Angier.
Material type: TextSeries: Writers' & artists' companionPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 147252425X
- 9781472524256
- 9781472531056
- 1472531051
- Arvon book of life writing
- Biography as a literary form
- Biography
- Biographies as Topic
- Biographie (Genre litt�eraire)
- Biographies
- biographies (literary works)
- biography (general genre)
- Autobiography: literary
- Creative writing & creative writing guides
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
- REFERENCE / Writing Skills
- Biography as a literary form
- 808/.06692 23
- CT22
Previous edition: published as The Arvon book of life writing. London: Methuen Drama, 2010.
Print version record.
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.
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