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Title: Exposure to life-writing as an impact on autobiographical memory
Related: Memory studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, (2011), p.206-220
DOI: 10.1177/1750698010389571
Publisher: Sage Publications
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Harbus, Antonina
Description: This article combines narrative and genre theory with recent studies of memory processing and reporting to propose that contact with published biography and autobiography, both direct and indirect, has an influence on autobiographical narrative, memory and self-formation. Exposure to durable and pervasive modes of life-writing, transmitted culturally, provides frameworks for meaning-making that normalize certain narrative structures and shape the content and organization of autobiographical memory. This article traces the transfer of conventions found in life-writing genres in recently reported autobiographical memory studies, to argue that further consideration should be given in empirical research contexts to the impact of cultural and educational factors on memory.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: autobiography
Subject Keyword: biography
Subject Keyword: cultural factors
Subject Keyword: life-writing
Subject Keyword: memory
Subject Keyword: narrative
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of English

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