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This guide is ideal for students of creative writing who wish to explore the writing process and its relationship to self in order to develop as writers. Each chapter links a range of theoretical approaches to one practical aspect of writing, using illustrations from fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction, and suggesting practical exercises for pursuing the topic further. The book will enable students to develop literary, critical and psychodynamic understandings of the creative process and to explore a range of key topics.

Authorship. --- Creative writing. --- Self in literature.

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Self in literature. --- Moi dans la littérature --- Auster, Paul, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Literary semiotics --- Autobiography. --- Self in literature. --- Biography as a literary form. --- Autobiographie --- Moi dans la littérature --- Biographie (Genre littéraire) --- Moi dans la littérature --- Biographie (Genre littéraire)

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Despite all the assertions towards the end of the twentieth century that the literary subject had expired along with the author, the wave of autobiographies published in German after the Wende was a clear indication that, on the contrary, life stories were very much alive. In this study, Owen Evans examines the work of eight authors - Ludwig Harig, Uwe Saeger, Ruth Klüger, Günter de Bruyn, Günter Kunert, Christoph Hein, Grete Weil and Monika Maron - who all published personal texts after 1989 dealing either with life in Nazi Germany or the GDR, and in some cases both. By means of close textual analysis, Evans explores the impact these regimes had on the individuals concerned and the contrasting ways in which the authors handle the autobiographical project. They adopt varying textual strategies to render the self on the page, with some employing overt fiction, and yet in each case, the project was clearly motivated by the need to treat psychological wounds inflicted on the self by totalitarianism. In their mapping of the contours of oppression, the texts at the heart of this study combine to offer a powerful defence of literary autobiography, in Germany at least, as a valuable means of tackling the legacy of totalitarianism.

German literature --- National socialism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Socialism in literature. --- Totalitarianism and literature. --- Totalitarianism --- Literature and totalitarianism --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- History --- Fiction.

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Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the "counterfeit," both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic-an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic

American literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Self in literature --- Passing (Identity) in literature --- Counterfeits and counterfeiting --- Literature --- Twain, Mark --- Larsen, Nella --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature. --- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature. --- Impostors and imposture in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Passing (Identity) in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism.