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(Re)writing and remembering : memory as artefact and artifice / edited by Virginia Allen-Terry Sherman [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Recounting past events is intrinsic to the storytelling function, as most fiction assumes the past tense as the natural means of narrating a story. Few narratives draw attention to this process, yet others make the act of remembering a primary part of the narrative situation. Ranging in its focus from poetry to novels, autobiographical memoirs and biopics - from the ostensibly fictional to the implicitly real - this volume discusses the extent to which such fictional acts of remembering are also acts of rewriting the past to suit the needs of the present. How seamlessly does experience yield t
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8870-2
- OCLC:
- 944187656
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