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  • adjective In the style of a memoir.

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memoir +‎ -istic

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  • In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.

    Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010

  • As far as prose books go, I just started Lawrence Shainberg's unbelievably strange Crust, an erudite, obsessive, mock-memoiristic, mock-annotated novel about nose-picking (and media/information overload).

    What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.

    Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010

  • The next book that I want to write, the core is going to again be autobiographical, memoiristic incidents and literary critical background, which I will try not to make too oppressive.

    Adventures in Russian Literature Alexandra Alter 2010

  • According to my own code of writerly ethics, it would be fraudulent to write an essay or memoiristic piece that in which I am giving birth or raising a child of my own without having gone through such an experience.

    Writing About Motherhood: A Childless Scribe Speaks Out Erika D. 2008

  • What about prose that isn't officially memoiristic, but rather journalistic?

    Misery, Memoir, and "Emotional Journalism" Erika D. 2006

  • What about prose that isn't officially memoiristic, but rather journalistic?

    Archive 2006-07-01 Erika D. 2006

  • Elizabeth Benedict: In reading The Cat's Table , I have to admit that I was startled by the straightforward narrative and the straightforward, memoiristic voice of the narrator, compared to much of your other fiction.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Elizabeth Benedict 2011

  • In that sense, A Taste for Language is not memoiristic, either.

    Inside Higher Ed 2010

  • In fiction it means generally apolitical, domesticated narrative that remains willfully ignorant of modernism (the highbrow style doesn't work with the guild's self-presentation), leaning strongly toward the confessional, memoiristic, autobiographical, narcissistic, and plainly understood.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Anis Shivani 2010

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