Life as a Set of Games and Invented Stories in Lewis Nordan''s Fictional Memoir
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angličtina
Original language name
Life as a Set of Games and Invented Stories in Lewis Nordan''s Fictional Memoir
Original language description
The chapter provides an analysis of Lewis Nordan's fictional memoir Boy with Loaded Gun. In the light of the opinion that every autobiography contains a certain portion of fiction, the article gives examples of situations in which a person who faces themprefers their narrative power to real-life consequences, having in mind that bad endings make better fiction. In his memoir, Nordan uses three narrative personas: the "narrating I" who tries to reconstruct situations from the past as faithfully as possible, the "commenting I" who analyzes the situations after they are described, and the "fictionalized I" who satisfies the self's desire to spin stories with himself as a protagonist. The author's distancing strategies are inspired by comic books and follow patterns given in Eric Berne's theory of life games.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
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Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
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Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Lewis Nordan: Humor, Heartbreak, and Hope
ISBN
978-0-8173-5681-1
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
42-63
Number of pages of the book
204
Publisher name
University of Alabama Press
Place of publication
Tuscaloosa, USA
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