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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   LIFE (AND DEATH) NARRATIVES IN JOAN DIDION’S THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING.

Authors:  MARIA ŞTEFĂNESCU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Joan Didion’s 2005 book, The Year of Magical Thinking, recounts the author’s experience of grief subsequent to her husband’s unexpected death, as well as being an illness narrative. Based on recent work done in autobiographical studies and narratology, I shall attempt to analyse The Year of Magical Thinking in terms of the identity narratives it deploys in an effort to reestablish life coherence and continuity. I shall also focus on the book’s formal construction and the various reader responses it may trigger.

Key Words: illness narrative, autobiography, mourning literature, reader response.
 
         
     
         
         
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