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dc.contributor.authorMeihuizen, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:11:10Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:11:10Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationMeihuizen, N. 2013. Autobiographical techniques and the problems of memorial reconstruction: Amis, Coetzee, Kermode and Motion. Scrutiny2: issues in english studies in Southern Africa, 18(1):13-22. [http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rscr20/current]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1812-5441
dc.identifier.issn1753-5409 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/16209
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the various ways Martin Amis, J.M. Coetzee, Frank Kermode and Andrew Motion approach the problems associated with memorial reconstruction and veracity in their autobiographical writings. Using as a starting point James Olney’s notion of the “free conceptual construction” involved in our general way of making sense of the world, the article goes on to consider the means employed by these writers to negotiate with “the archive of the ‘real’” and the “archive of ‘fiction’”, to draw on Derrida’s terms (1992), in their various engagements with the conceptual construction of life stories. A special emphasis is placed on what Derek Attridge (2004) calls the “singularity” of that construction, its truth to itself as writingen_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rscr20/current]
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rscr20/18/1
dc.description.uriDOI:10.1080/18125441.2013.803718
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.titleAutobiographical techniques and the problems of memorial reconstruction: Amis, Coetzee, Kermode and Motionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID23459220 - Meihuizen, Nicholas Clive Titherley


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