Writing Your Self: Transforming Personal Material

by John Killick and Myra Schneider

Book Overview

Writing Your Self is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wants to explore personal material in their writing. It examines how many writers use personal subject matter in memoirs, poems, journals and novels.

Part One focuses on universal experiences including childhood, identity, adult relationships and loss as well as more specific issues such as displacement and disability, physical and mental illness and abuse. Throughout the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847062520
• ISBN13: 9781847062529
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"