Week 1 11/02/2021
Writing lived experience in social cultural context.
Life writing can be an excellent form for activism.
Week 2 16/02/2021
Autobiographical sketch: everyone has di erent approaches
- Graphological deviation —> playing with the words and colours and visual representation
of the text.
- Second person & complete regard of autobiographical detail
- Geographical identi cation, somehow more personal?
- Orderly existence is being disturbed by the pandemic.
- The poem brings comfort while the exegesis explains and presents us with a deep and dark
explanation
- Writing like an autobiograper
- Narrated I and narrating I —> the person that speaks and the person that is spoken about.
- Introducing a new phase in every paragraph
- Lived experience
Week 2 18/02/2021
Lecture
- Instagram lecture // summary of the readings
- Anna is experimenting with life writing genres.
- You have certain assumptions about what a lecture looks like, it generally doesn’t look like an
instagram account.
- Think about the ways in which we recognise knowledge, she didn’t adhere to the genre of a
lecture.
Autobiographical subjects
- Memory
- Experience
- Identity
- Space
- Embodiment
- Agency
Discussion
- Fiction is not life writing and not all non- ction is life writing, while all life writing is non-
ction.
- Poetry is hard to consider life writing if there’s no evidence that the speaker is the author, this
is easy for confessional poetry, as it is known that they are the speaker in the poem.
Week 3 23/02/2021
Narrations
- Ideological I —> Represents the social setting in which something takes place, e.g.
belonging to a certain subculture.
- Narrating I —> The narrator. They’re telling a lot / re ecting.
- Narrated I —> The character in the text.
- Historical I —> the one that actually exists.
- Literature
- All knowing narrator —> knows what’ll happen in the end.
- Narrator that experiences things at the same time as the character experiences things.
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Writing lived experience in social cultural context.
Life writing can be an excellent form for activism.
Week 2 16/02/2021
Autobiographical sketch: everyone has di erent approaches
- Graphological deviation —> playing with the words and colours and visual representation
of the text.
- Second person & complete regard of autobiographical detail
- Geographical identi cation, somehow more personal?
- Orderly existence is being disturbed by the pandemic.
- The poem brings comfort while the exegesis explains and presents us with a deep and dark
explanation
- Writing like an autobiograper
- Narrated I and narrating I —> the person that speaks and the person that is spoken about.
- Introducing a new phase in every paragraph
- Lived experience
Week 2 18/02/2021
Lecture
- Instagram lecture // summary of the readings
- Anna is experimenting with life writing genres.
- You have certain assumptions about what a lecture looks like, it generally doesn’t look like an
instagram account.
- Think about the ways in which we recognise knowledge, she didn’t adhere to the genre of a
lecture.
Autobiographical subjects
- Memory
- Experience
- Identity
- Space
- Embodiment
- Agency
Discussion
- Fiction is not life writing and not all non- ction is life writing, while all life writing is non-
ction.
- Poetry is hard to consider life writing if there’s no evidence that the speaker is the author, this
is easy for confessional poetry, as it is known that they are the speaker in the poem.
Week 3 23/02/2021
Narrations
- Ideological I —> Represents the social setting in which something takes place, e.g.
belonging to a certain subculture.
- Narrating I —> The narrator. They’re telling a lot / re ecting.
- Narrated I —> The character in the text.
- Historical I —> the one that actually exists.
- Literature
- All knowing narrator —> knows what’ll happen in the end.
- Narrator that experiences things at the same time as the character experiences things.
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