Book description
A critical analysis of autobiographical novels by women depicting the struggle to become creative artists. Each of the book's six chapters examines a single novel, including works such as Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar", Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark".
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1 author picked A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A weird part of writing memoir is needing to view yourself as a character. But it’s a necessary task, as all the best memoirs are written like a novel.
Because my “main character” was a writer who struggled to see herself as a writer, and often felt self-conscious about finishing the bucket list of a man, I had to learn about how female writers had historically been depicted.
One insight in Huf’s book was that kunstlerromans (or the coming-of-age of an artist novel) about male writers often depict him as effeminate, while kunstlerromans about female writers depict her as tomboy-ish.…
From Laura's list on embracing your main character energy.
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