How Our Lives Become Stories

The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes , Mary Karr's The Liars' Club , and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss , has led columnists to call ours "the age of memoir." And while some critics have derided the explosion of memoir as exhibitionistic and self-aggrandizing, literary theorists are now beginning to look seriously at this profusion of autobiographical literature. Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, How Our Lives Become Stories enhance