Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the - Nove

This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived experience and in helping to determine the status of the narrator as (fictional) persona or (implied) author.

List of contents

Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Theoretical and Critical Concerns: Key Terms and Arguments; The Anatomy of a Writer: Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle; Companion Pieces: Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? in Relation to Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; A Cross-Cultural Memoir: Xiaolu Guo's Once Upon a Time in the East; Rachel Cusk's Search for New Forms: Self-Projection and Refraction in Fiction and Non-Fiction; Conclusion; References; Index

About the author

Fiona J. Doloughan is senior lecturer in English (literature and creative writing) at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. She is the author of two previous monographs and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on aspects of contemporary narrative.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona J. Doloughan
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781839996375
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-637-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, Min Kamp (My Struggle); Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit