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Life Writing

Here you will find all the resources identified by our tutors as useful for the study of this topic, arranged in ascending alphabetical order. Browse the tiles and descriptions to discover if there are any resources of interest to you, or click on any of the other keywords to see resources sorted by alternative topics.

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Link "Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of the first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing in which Professor Michèle Roberts offers a stimulating blend...

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Link Alan Hollinghurst, in conversation with Hermione Lee

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of discussion between Hermione Lee and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollighurst about the...

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Link All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of lecture by Professor Michael Wood about interdisciplinary aspects of life-writing. Inaugural lecture of...

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Link Candia McWilliam's Life-Writing Bibliography

Bibliography for those interested in exploring Life-Writing by the writer and novelist Candia McWilliam. Includes link to McWilliam's Oxford...

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Link From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of lecture by Professor Hermione Lee about famous encounters between literary figures and how these...

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Link Life stories

A look at life stories from various points of view, including those of the sociologist and the writer, and how life stories relate to a sense of...

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Link The closest exit may be behind you

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of lecture by Booker-shortlisted British-Libyan novelist Hisham Matar about life-writing and identity and...

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Link Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing podcast of novelist and memoirist Candia McWilliam's Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing, in which she attests to the...

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