Tuesday, April 3, 2012

"All Writing is Autobiography"

In the article "All Writing is Autobiography" Murray is asking us to reconsider, well just what the title states, that all writing is autobiography. He backs up this claim by including pieces of his writing in which he describes events in his life, however makes up false events within them. He claims that his writing is still autobiographical because even if it doesn't come from his own experiences, per say, it still comes from somewhere in his head, as Murray states in his article, "I don't know where what I know comes from. Was it dreamt, read, overheard, imagined, experienced in life or at the writing desk? I have spun a web more coherent than experience" (8). Murray wants us to reconsider how we think of the word "autobiography" as more than just psysical life experiences, but the experiences in your mind as well.

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