{"product_id":"healing-art-regeneration-through-autobiography-paperback-softback","title":"Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality–a healing act that involves the writer in a \"wrestle with words and meanings\" that can be deeply regenerative. Narration can be a way of purging guilt and pain, re-centering the self, and reconnecting with community after a shattering experience has driven one into silence and isolation. This book considers the problems, such as finding words for the inexplicable, the narrative perspective chosen and the traditional forms or narrative structures as means of re-patterning consciousness. It looks at seven autobiographies as crisis narratives and demonstrates how therapy and art merge in autobiography so that the literature acts back upon life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks considered: Vera Brittain’s \u003ci\u003eTestament of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e; Elie Wiesel’s \u003ci\u003eNight;\u003c\/i\u003e Christa Wolf’s \u003ci\u003eKinheitsmuster\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Model Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e); C. S. Lewis’ \u003ci\u003eA Grief Observed\u003c\/i\u003e; Peter Handke’s \u003ci\u003eWunschloses Unglueck\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e); Adrienne Rich’s \u003ci\u003eOf Woman Born\u003c\/i\u003e; Robert Prisig’s \u003ci\u003eZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546867228910,"sku":"9781138941960","price":55.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138941960.jpg?v=1720240869","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/healing-art-regeneration-through-autobiography-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}