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Writing Your Self : Transforming Personal Material / Myra Schneider and John Killick

Author
Schneider, Myra, 1936-
Published
London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 259 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Killick, John, 1936-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
1. Childhood and relationships with parents -- 2. Identity -- 3. Adult relationships -- 4. Abuse -- 5. Displacement and disability -- 6. Illness -- 7. Mental illness -- 8. Caring and coping -- 9. Loss -- 10. Facing death -- 11. Spirituality -- 12. Getting started, image explorations and basic techniques -- 13. Accessing memories, secret letters, monologues and dialogues, visualizations -- 14. Fictionalizing, transforming personal material, dreams, drawing as a starting point -- 15. Keeping a journal, writing a memoir, shaping work -- 16. Finishing work.
Summary
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 writers, including the authors, give frank, firsthand accounts of their own experiences and how they have tackled writing about them.€. Part Two begins wi.
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ISBN
9781441190703 (electronic bk.)
1441190708 (electronic bk.)
1282876759
9781282876750
9786612876752
6612876751
9781847062512
1847062512
9781847062529
1847062520
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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