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The stories we tell ourselves: Joan Didion on the romantic fantasies of reality
This dissertation attempts to showcase the ways in which Joan Didion employs metaphoric prose to expose the “romantic fantasies” in the creative nonfiction works of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). I propose that a reading of these romantic fantasies is dep...
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Department of English Language and Literature
2022
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