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The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms / Alexandra Effe, Hannie Lawlor, editors.

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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of "the autofictional" as...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Effe, Alexandra (Editor), Lawlor, Hannie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave studies in life writing.
Subjects:
Autobiographical fiction > History and criticism.
Autobiographical fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: From Autofiction to the Autofictional; Alexandra Effe and Hannie Lawlor
  • 2. Five Theses on Autofiction/the Autofictional; Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
  • 3. The Fictional in Autofiction; Alison James
  • 4. A Cognitive Perspective on Autofictional Writing, Texts, and Reading; Alexandra Effe and Alison Gibbons
  • 5. The Pragmatics of Autofiction; Arnaud Schmitt
  • 6. The Autofictional in Serial, Literary Works; Ricarda Menn and Melissa Schuh
  • 7. Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models; Hanna Meretoja
  • 8. Multilingual Autofiction: Mobilizing Language(s)?; Helle Egendal
  • 9. Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion; Karen Ferreira-Meyers and Bontle Tau
  • 10. Autofiction, Post-conflict Narratives, and New Memory Cultures; Hywel Dix
  • 11. Autofiction as a Lens for Reading Contemporary Egyptian Writing; Hala Kamal, Fatma Atef Massoud, and Zainab Magdy
  • 12. Autofiction and Film: Archival Practices in Post-Millennial Documentary Cinema in Argentina and Spain; Anna Forne and Patricia Lopez-Gay
  • 13. Autofiction and Shishosetsu: Women Writers and Reinventing the Self; Justyna Kasza.-14. Autofiction and the Diary: The Radicalization of Autofiction in works by Herve Guibert and Christine Angot; Sam Ferguson.-15. Autofiction and Self-Portraiture: Jenny Diski and Claude Cahun; Ben Grant
  • 16. Visual Autofiction: A Strategy for Cultural Inclusion Autofiction and Photography: "The Split of the Mirror"; Laura Marcus.

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