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The Memoirist against History: Nabokov’s Speak, Memory as the (re)negotiation of a literary form at the intersection of personal experience and historical narrative

European Journal of Life Writing, 2019
Nabokov’s Speak, Memory is a literary memoir that negotiates the relationship between history and personal experience by illuminating one end of a spectrum of authoritative effects that range from artifice to spontaneity.
Michael Sala
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"A Widely Applicable Model": Teaching Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions. [PDF]

J Med Humanit, 2023
Hardy SB, Starr E, Maagaard CA, McAuliffe S, McConnell E, Quesenberry K.   +5 more
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Commentary: Ignorance as Bias: Radiolab, Yellow Rain, and “The Fact of the Matter” [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal, 2018
In 2012 the National Public Radio show “Radiolab” released a podcast (later broadcast on air) essentially asserting that Hmong victims of a suspected chemical agent known as “yellow rain” were ignorant of their surroundings and the facts, and were merely
Paul Hillmer, Mary Ann Yang
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Medical Biography of Isak Samokovlija: The Famous Bosnian-Herzegovinian Writer. [PDF]

Acta Med Acad, 2022
Tahirović H.
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To Begin to Know: Resolving ethical tensions in David Leser’s patriographical work [PDF]

, 2018
Resolving the binary oppositions of loyalty/betrayal and privacy/shared ownership frequently problematizes the practice of those writers producing patriographical/matriographical texts.
Joseph, SA, Rickett, C
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Feature Essay

, 2002
A new capitalist order Russell Baker, the former New York Times columnist and memoirist, made a career of blurring the lines between fact and fable, thereby gaining critical acclaim and a popular following.
Knull, Morgan N.
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Guardians of Childhood, Sentinels of Soul. [PDF]

Pastoral Psychol, 2022
Dykstra RC.
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The Health Benefits of Autobiographical Writing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. [PDF]

J Med Humanit, 2021
Valtonen J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reading fiction: the benefits are numerous. [PDF]

Br J Gen Pract, 2020
Marshall R.
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A Life Committed

African Journal of Political Science
Memoirs are usually one of the best avenues to understand people’s lives. They provide a first-hand account of one’s life from different perspectives. One of the problems with them is that they are expectedly full of biases.
Sbonelo Radebe
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