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In about 100 words, discuss the meaning of narrative and how it works in autobiography and memoir. Be sure and point out the differences between the two types.
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line between memoir and autobiography is a fuzzy one, especially in this modern literary era where writers are constantly blurring the boundaries between genres to create a new, exciting one. Like an autobiography, a memoir is a narrative that reveals experiences within the author's lifetime. But there are obvious and practical differences between the two similar genres.
In essence, an autobiography is a chronological telling of one's experience, which should include phases such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, etc., while a memoir provides a much more specific timeline and a much more intimate relationship to the writer's own memories, feelings and emotions.
Memoirs are typically
less formal
less encompassing
more concerned with emotional truth toward a particular section of one’s life and how it makes you feel now
less obsessed with factual events
written by the subject
Autobiography is essentially
written by the main character or at least drafted with a collaborative writer
made up of detailed chronology, events, places, reactions, movements and any other relevant information that inhabited the life of the subject
focused on facts - fact, above all, is its foundation
In his own memoir, Palimpsest, Gore Vidal gave his own definitions of the two genres stating, "a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double