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Art of Time in Memoir
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| Product ID: 4035 |
| Price: $12.00 |
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Description: The Art of Time in Memoir – Sven Birkerts
From the back cover:
In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. “Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times,” Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the memoirist’s strategies for presenting the subjective experience of time reveal the power and resonance of the writer’s life. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, Virginia Woolf’s unfinished A Sketch of the Past, and Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club,Birkerts describes the memoirist’s essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, how the work stirs to life our own sense of past and present.
Sven Birkerts is the author of Reading Life, Readings, The Gutenberg Elegies, and a memoir, My Sky Blue Trades.He currently teaches at Harvard University and at the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the editor of AGNI. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.
- Graywolf Press, 2008
- Trade Paperback, 5" x 7", 194 pages.
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