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posted on 2022-03-28, 18:13 authored by Merril Ann HowieDespite wide scholarly consensus regarding our long-standing penchant for autobiographical literature, further critical work is needed to more clearly apprehend and articulate the interplay between particular narrative techniques and cognitive processes that combine to invite such enthusiastic readerly engagements with life writing texts. My Master of Research project - focusing specifically on the literary memoir - aims to identify and explicate a number of potent contributing factors that drive and motivate our ongoing readerly predilection for skillfully written autobiographical narratives. This transdisciplinary cognitive literary study examines selected passages from the literary memoirs of Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) ('Moments of Being') and Helen Garner (1942- ('True Stories and Everywhere I Look'). It focuses specifically on textual representations of memory, emotion and empathy, three components crucial not only to both effective and affective portrayals of life narratives, but also to self understanding and the creation of personal narratives beyond writing, in lived experience.
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Introduction -- Chapter 1: Portraying and engendering memory in autobiographical narrative -- Chapter 2: The power and potential of emotion in life narratives -- Chapter 3: Empathy in life writing – feeling for our former selves.Notes
Theoretical thesis. Bibliography: pages 85-92Awarding Institution
Macquarie UniversityDegree Type
Thesis MResDegree
MRes, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts, Department of EnglishDepartment, Centre or School
Department of EnglishYear of Award
2017Principal Supervisor
Antonina HarbusRights
Copyright Merril Ann Howie 2017. Copyright disclaimer: http://mq.edu.au/library/copyrightLanguage
EnglishExtent
1 online resource (92 pages)Former Identifiers
mq:70697 http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1266838Usage metrics
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memoirAutobiographycognitive literary analysisWoolfGarnerWoolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941. -- Moment (Essay) -- Criticism and interpretationemotionGarner, HelenMemory in literatureSelf in literatureempathyGarner, Helen, -- 1942- -- Essays. -- Criticism and interpretationmemoryWoolf, VirginiaEmpathy in literature