ENGB12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sensemaking, Margaret Atwood, The Zoo Story
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>edward albee - amercian playwright known for works such as the zoo story,the sandbox, >margaret atwood - canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. >during the act of narration, the writer becomes both the observing subject and the object of investigation, contemplation, and memory. > it is a process or a set of self-referential practices that engages the past while reflecting on the present. > our goal is to complicate or trouble the ordinary and expected understandings of self- referential narrative. > autos denotes "self"+ bios denotes "life" + graphe denotes "writing" = self-life writing. > philippe lejeune (1975) - "we call autobiography the retrospective narrative in prose that someone makes of his own existence when he puts the principal accent upon his life, especially upon the story of his own personality. " > the autobiographical then is a story that needs contextualizing.
