“My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”

This creative writing doctorate consists of two components: firstly a creative work, namely a grief memoir, which depicts the illness and death of my husband and my subsequent recovery and rebuilding of fractured identity. Secondly the exegesis, which examines the representation of grief and the rec...

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Main Author: Den Elzen, Katrin
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70488
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description This creative writing doctorate consists of two components: firstly a creative work, namely a grief memoir, which depicts the illness and death of my husband and my subsequent recovery and rebuilding of fractured identity. Secondly the exegesis, which examines the representation of grief and the reconstruction of narrative identity in memoirs depicting young widowhood. It positions the theoretical approach at the intersection of autobiography scholarship and narrative psychology, specifically the Dialogical Self Theory.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-704882025-01-06T00:03:41Z “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity” Den Elzen, Katrin This creative writing doctorate consists of two components: firstly a creative work, namely a grief memoir, which depicts the illness and death of my husband and my subsequent recovery and rebuilding of fractured identity. Secondly the exegesis, which examines the representation of grief and the reconstruction of narrative identity in memoirs depicting young widowhood. It positions the theoretical approach at the intersection of autobiography scholarship and narrative psychology, specifically the Dialogical Self Theory. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70488 Curtin University fulltext
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“My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title_full “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title_fullStr “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title_full_unstemmed “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title_short “My Decision: A Memoir” and “The Young Widow Memoir: Grief and the Rebuilding of Fractured Identity”
title_sort “my decision: a memoir” and “the young widow memoir: grief and the rebuilding of fractured identity”
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70488