The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative

by Thomas Larson

Book Overview

The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true.

In The Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080401101X
• ISBN13: 9780804011013
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"