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Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook
| Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook |
| Autore | Miller Lynn <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.06/692 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Lenard-CookLisa |
| Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Authorship
Study and teaching |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-31177-6
0-299-29313-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465124903321 |
Miller Lynn <1951->
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| Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook
| Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook |
| Autore | Miller Lynn <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.06/692 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Lenard-CookLisa |
| Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Authorship
Study and teaching |
| ISBN |
1-299-31177-6
0-299-29313-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792036003321 |
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Miller Lynn <1951->
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| Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook
| Find your story, write your memoir [[electronic resource] /] / Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook |
| Autore | Miller Lynn <1951-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808.06/692 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Lenard-CookLisa |
| Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Authorship
Study and teaching |
| ISBN |
1-299-31177-6
0-299-29313-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Occasion of the Telling: "It Begins Here because It's about This" -- A Place to Stand -- Is It an Autobiography, or Is It a Memoir? -- It's about the Storyteller -- Reliability and the Narrator -- Telling the Truth in Memoir -- The Occasion of the Telling and Organizing the Memoir -- She Died, so I Remember -- And Then, in an Instant, Everything Changed -- Now and Then, Then and Now -- Consequence and the Occasion of the Telling -- 2. The Two Yous: Finding a Place to Stand -- The Remembering Self -- The Experiencing Self -- The Dance of the Two Yous -- The Power of Testifying -- Taking Yourself by the Hand -- Negotiating Duality -- Sensory Cues as Keys to Memory -- Using Language and Imagery to Move between the Two Yous -- The Nature of Memory -- 3. Building a Narrative: Laying Down the Bones -- Beginning Your Story -- Catalysts and Conflicts -- Mapping the Tension -- Examples of Structures -- Chronological Structure -- Circular Structure -- Associative Structure -- Collage Structure -- Parallel Structure -- Locational Structure -- Choosing a Structure -- You and Your Audience -- Creating the World of Your Story -- 4. Arranging the Scenes: Giving Them Muscle -- Dramatic Structure -- Ordering the Scene -- Catalyst -- Conflict -- Rising Action -- Reversals -- Climax -- Denouement -- Particularizing the Moment -- Internal Action -- External Action -- The Emblematic Scene -- Putting It All Together -- 5. Painting the Picture: Language and Setting -- The Magic of Imagery -- Using Figurative Language -- Language and Sense of Place -- Setting as Metaphor -- Place as Time Period -- Language as Action -- Controlling Time -- Dialogue -- Silence -- The Secrets of Subtext -- 6. Your Story, Your Voice: Make It Your Own -- The First-Person Voice -- Between Experience and Remembering.
Beyond First Person -- Your Two Voices -- You, the Narrator -- You, the Character -- Voices of the Masters -- "She Opened Herself Up a Worm Farm" -- "The Fortuneteller Was Not Guilty" -- "Reveal[ing] Those Demons That Obsess Him" -- The Shadowy Personage Who Commits the Actual Writing -- "The Capsules of Safety, and Freedom" -- Claiming Your Voice -- You Are the Camera -- Using What You Don't Know -- 7. Honoring the Memoir Process: Taking the Next Steps -- Re-visioning Your Manuscript -- Read It Aloud -- Put It Away -- Take It Out -- An Editorial Checklist -- The Occasion of the Telling -- The Two Yous -- Building a Narrative -- Arranging the Scenes -- Painting the Picture -- Your Story, Your Voice -- Honoring the Memoir Process -- Other People, Other Rooms -- Claiming Responsibility for Your Story -- The Ethics of Guilt -- What's Next? -- Bringing Your Story into Public Space -- Your Story, Your Book -- Spotlight Exercises by Chapter -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Other Suggested Memoirs. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812968703321 |
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Miller Lynn <1951->
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| Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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