Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On American Creative Nonfiction.
Critical Contexts.
1: American Creative Nonfiction: Background and History.
2: Critical Reception of “A Special Kind of Fiction”.
3: The Lyric Essay as Non-nonfiction.
4: “Loops and Spins”: Autobiography, Autofiction, and Tim O'Brien's Serial Selves.
Critical Readings.
5: Benjamin Franklin's Middle Way and the Argumentative Nature of Autobiography.
6: Gender and Genre in Susan Fenimore Cooper's Nature Writing.
7: “A Canticle of My Reaction”: Socio-Cultural Criticism in Claude McKay's A Long Way from Home.
8: “I'm Fighting Because You're down Here”: Small Stories and Big Histories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War.
9: Medical Humanities and Illness Narratives.
10: The Grand Memoir: Temple Grandin and Autism.
11: Stories of the Self in Cinema: Autobiography and the Documentary Image.
12: One Life Transformed: Natalie Goldberg's Writing, Art, and Religion.
13: David Foster Wallace and the Ethical Potential of Creative Nonfiction.
14: Choreographing Time: Art Spiegelman's Present, Past(s) and the Craft of Creative Nonfiction Comics.
