{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/manifest.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"A Lifetime of Magical Thinking","metadata":[{"label":"dc.description.sponsorship","value":"This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree."},{"label":"dc.format","value":"Monograph"},{"label":"dc.format.medium","value":"Electronic Resource"},{"label":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77564"},{"label":"dc.language.iso","value":"en_US"},{"label":"dc.publisher","value":"The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY."},{"label":"dcterms.abstract","value":"This project examines how the narrative structure of Joan Didion's two most recent works, The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights, may be used to gain a better understanding of the author herself. Didion's use of the term " magical thinking" is accepted as a reasonable response to the grief she experiences following the deaths of her husband and daughter. An examination of her larger body of work indicates that magical thinking is a tactic of literary invention Didion has relied upon since childhood to restore order to her life when it becomes chaotic and unmanageable. Using Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction as a starting point for discussion, this project answers the following questions: How can one discern Didion the narrator from Didion the protagonist? How does knowledge of Booth's " implied author" illuminate the fictional format Didion works with in these two memoirs? And finally, how does the separation of Didion's identity into character and narrator create a rich description of Didion's grief?"},{"label":"dcterms.available","value":"2017-09-20T16:52:55Z"},{"label":"dcterms.contributor","value":"Newman, Andrew"},{"label":"dcterms.creator","value":"Johnston Boecherer, Victoria"},{"label":"dcterms.dateAccepted","value":"2017-09-20T16:52:55Z"},{"label":"dcterms.dateSubmitted","value":"2017-09-20T16:52:55Z"},{"label":"dcterms.description","value":"Department of English."},{"label":"dcterms.extent","value":"36 pg."},{"label":"dcterms.format","value":"Monograph"},{"label":"dcterms.identifier","value":"http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77564"},{"label":"dcterms.issued","value":"2013-12-01"},{"label":"dcterms.language","value":"en_US"},{"label":"dcterms.provenance","value":"Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1\nJohnstonBoecherer_grad.sunysb_0771M_11355.pdf: 218246 bytes, checksum: 01982f27003437e14971111ff092ae3b (MD5)\n  Previous issue date:    1"},{"label":"dcterms.publisher","value":"The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY."},{"label":"dcterms.subject","value":"grief, implied author, magical thinking, memoir, narrative"},{"label":"dcterms.title","value":"A Lifetime of Magical Thinking"},{"label":"dcterms.type","value":"Thesis"},{"label":"dc.type","value":"Thesis"}],"description":"This manifest was generated dynamically","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/canvas/page-1.json","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Page 1","height":1650,"width":1275,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/49%2F78%2F59%2F49785970306810753502195094375474474536/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":1650,"width":1275,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/49%2F78%2F59%2F49785970306810753502195094375474474536","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/canvas/page-1.json"}]}]}]}