New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives

By Sonya Huber and Kate Douglas

Book Overview

With recent advances in digital technology, a number of exciting and innovative approaches to writing lives have emerged, from graphic memoirs to blogs and other visual-verbal-virtual texts. This edited collection is a timely study of new approaches to writing lives, including literary docu-memoir, autobiographical cartography, social media life writing and autobiographical writing for children. Combining literary theory with insightful critical approaches, each essay offers a serious study of innovative forms of life writing, with a view to reflecting on best practice and offering the reader practical guidance on methods and techniques.

Offering a range of practical exercises and an insight into cutting-edge literary methodologies, this is an inspiring and thought-provoking companion for students of literature and creative writing studying courses on life writing, memoir or creative non-fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1352007185
• ISBN13: 9781352007183
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 9.5"