Naslov
The Texture of Everyday Life

Autori
Polić, Vanja

Izvornik
Brno Studies in English (0524-6881) 37 (2011), 2; 159-171

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
life writing; documentariness; fictionality; memory; emplotment; metahistory; narrative self; Susanna Moodie; Margaret Atwood

Sažetak
The paper will explore some of the ways in which personal experience turns into life writing, the process in which a record of a life lived becomes a story, such as the textualization of the “texture” of life, or from body to book ; the emplotment of the incidences of life into a life narrative (White) ; the heteroglossia of life writing (Bakhtin) ; the finding of voice for one’s self (Eakin) ; and the role of memory in life writing (Olney). As specific backdrop to the discussion, the two well-known examples of Canadian literature, Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush, and Margaret Atwood’s reinscription, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, will be used to exemplify some of the main arguments raised in the paper.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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