One of Murdoch's most celebrated novels, The Sea, The Sea, provides a fitting example of the nature of the blinding fantasy through which a person creates a Self. ... Narrative Psychologist Jerome Bruner is an influential writer on the topic of Self. ... He also speaks about the culture of story telling, where as soon as one begins to learn to speak, becomes familiar with how to use narrative in order to recount and bring to together the contradictory experiences of one's life. ... Further, autobiography is generally used to create a particular type of identity, which is generally...

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Our concerned for today is a production that is universally regarded as the finest example of a slave narrative tradition and Douglass' most accomplished work, that is to say the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself. ... In fact, there were other slave narratives in his time, some told by former slaves to white writers, and Douglass wanted to distinguish his work from other such narratives. ... Like many slave narratives, Douglass' Narrative was prefaced with endorsements by white abolitionists. ... In fact, we can say that Douglass'...

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This narrative is far different than the autobiographical narratives written by former prisoners. ... It was up to the parents to lead by example, only asking or suggesting a child perform a task, never demanding obedience. ... For example, Europeans considered native men lazy and irresponsible because they allowed women to do all the farming and harvesting, a traditionally male role in European society. ... Such self-aggrandizement filled Williams" narrative in cases of arguing with the Jesuits. He gains a great celebrity among New Englanders after the publishing of his narrative and cann...

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The play Mingus Remixed takes the stance of an autobiographical narrative told by Charles Mingus himself and presents its plot through an inner dialogue between him and his acquaintances; and, although it strives for historical realism this work is still fiction derived from Barry Shabaka Henley's imagination. ... In example after performing in Burd's tour he ends up not getting paid, and also he is removed from Duke Ellington's orchestra almost immediately after joining it because of an altercation with another band member. ... Shabaka utilizes the "essential narrative&quo...

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Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... Wolfe is among the most celebrated authors of the early 20th century, and is credited for paving the way for autobiographical fiction genre, thus there is no doubt that Angelou's respect and knowledge of the author's work assisted in strengthening her autobiographical works. ... An example of a simile in the poem include the part where describes where a woman is called an old lady and chided at for moving and talking like winter's molasses (Braxton 38). ... Angelou relied on black liter...

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For instance, In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, author Alison Bechdel shows some youth experiences like her faltering relationship with her father, the breakdown of her parents' marriage, and her own explorations of sexuality with one of the most intelligent and insightful autobiographical comics. ... Bechdel by drawing separate scenes from her infancy, puberty, and young maturity finds patterns that some readers can reconstruct by moving around the narrative in a flexible, non-linear manner. For example, use of scene-to-scene panel can be represented when Alison accidentally cut her fing...

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For example, a participant who knows that his or her cousin was closely involved in their upbringing is likely to guess that he or she was present at an important event without any actual memory of the fact. ... For example, my earliest memory is from when I was about four years old and my grandmother gave me a piece of amethyst in a wooden quart basket similar to one you buy berries in. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ...

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For example, a participant who knows that his or her cousin was closely involved in their upbringing is likely to guess that he or she was present at an important event without any actual memory of the fact. ... For example, my earliest memory is from when I was about four years old and my grandmother gave me a piece of amethyst in a wooden quart basket similar to one you buy berries in. ... For example, a question asked what the baby was doing when you first saw him or her and most people know that newborns spend most of their time sleeping, eating or crying. ...

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A direct example of this is when James' refers one of Emily Dickinson's poems in her diary, while explaining how she had been asked by her doctor if she'd ever been written for the press like her famous brothers: How dreary to be somebody How public like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog. ... Knowing her familial background and the ideas of each gender's responsibilities that she was surrounded by, James' diary is then a fascinating example of the trials of creating something consistent, the self-projection and self-censoring, the obligatio...

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Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky's work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. ... Raskolnikov's justification of his crime is the principal example of his radicalism. ... This might constitute the theme of a new narrative "our present narrative is, however, at an end (Dostoyevsky 630). ...

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Literature clearly lends itself to such a study, since, like dreams, the most significant meaning often lies below the conscious surface narrative of a text. ... The high autobiographical content of Sons and Lovers lends itself to this type of study. ... The faults of selectivity and partiality have already been encountered in the failings of a psychoanalytic reading, and it also arises in Millet's interpretation when she accuses Paul of unrepentant cruelty towards Miriam when he attempts to teach her algebra, for example. ...

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The definition of the word in this context is "Presenting facts objectively without editorialising or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film" (Dictionary.com) However no documentary is totally objective, decisions on where to place the camera, editing choices and use of devices such as narration, music and close ups all serve to create a narrative of sorts serving the purpose the director intends. ... "Roger and Me" can be perhaps placed in the essay documentary category as it is an autobiographical film following Moore as he returns home to Flint, Michigan U.S.A to record the soci...

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As Minghui said, '...Gothic authors themselves questioned the relevance of religion, foregrounded issues on scientific antitheism by presenting Christianity in a dubious light, present, but altogether powerless...'2 A late Romantic example of this exists in the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an argument for social change in early nineteenth century Britain, reproving Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religio...

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