| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77564 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | This project examines how the narrative structure of Joan Didion's two most recent works, The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, may be used to gain a better understanding of the author herself. Didion's use of the term " magical thinking" is accepted as a reasonable response to the grief she experiences following the deaths of her husband and daughter. An examination of her larger body of work indicates that magical thinking is a tactic of literary invention Didion has relied upon since childhood to restore order to her life when it becomes chaotic and unmanageable. Using Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction as a starting point for discussion, this project answers the following questions: How can one discern Didion the narrator from Didion the protagonist? How does knowledge of Booth's " implied author" illuminate the fictional format Didion works with in these two memoirs? And finally, how does the separation of Didion's identity into character and narrator create a rich description of Didion's grief? | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Newman, Andrew | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Huffman, Clifford C | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Johnston Boecherer, Victoria | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of English. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 36 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77564 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2013-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | American literature | |
| dcterms.subject | grief, implied author, magical thinking, memoir, narrative | |
| dcterms.title | A Lifetime of Magical Thinking | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
