Navigating Loss in Women''s Contemporary Memoir

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Amy-Katerini Prodromou is a Lecturer in the Language Centre at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. She is the Reviews Editor for Life Writing journal, and runs the Women's Life Writing Network (WLWN). Her previous publications include articles in a range of journals. Klappentext Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. Zusammenfassung Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex! multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Life Writing and the Literature of Grief 2. Trout Tickling For Truth in Narratives of Loss 3. 'Writing the Self into Being': Narrative Identity in Memoirs of Loss 4. 'No Bones Broken': Embodied Experiences of Loss Conclusion: 'Weeping Constellations' References Index

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Introduction 1. Life Writing and the Literature of Grief 2. Trout Tickling For Truth in Narratives of Loss 3. 'Writing the Self into Being': Narrative Identity in Memoirs of Loss 4. 'No Bones Broken': Embodied Experiences of Loss Conclusion: 'Weeping Constellations' References Index

About the author

Amy-Katerini Prodromou is a Lecturer in the Language Centre at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. She is the Reviews Editor for Life Writing journal, and runs the Women's Life Writing Network (WLWN). Her previous publications include articles in a range of journals.

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• Authors: A Prodromou, A. Prodromou, Amy-Katerini Prodromou
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2015
• EAN: 9781137482914
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48291-4
• No. of pages: 173
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; B, Women, Literature, entdecken, Writing, Self, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Literature, general, Development Economics, Palgrave Literature Collection, Biography, Literature and Literary studies