Individual Presentation or Panel Title
The Generation Effect
Abstract
I am researching memory and psychology to apply this learned knowledge to a Creative Writing thesis. The work is called The Generation Effect and moves through three generations of women in a single family, examining how the grandmother and mother have influenced the daughter. In writing this work, I wanted to replicate the principles of memory for the reader – does the reader forget as the narrator forgets? Do certain events in the text recall earlier events? The thesis combines poetry, prose, and essay and reads as nonfiction; however, while many of the stories are rooted in my own reality and most of the details are factual, I have imagined some of the events. After working so closely with this project, the falsified elements of the collection have become part of my actual memory, a testament to how we cannot trust ourselves.
Location
Rathskeller
Start Date
21-4-2012 3:30 PM
End Date
21-4-2012 4:20 PM
The Generation Effect
Rathskeller
I am researching memory and psychology to apply this learned knowledge to a Creative Writing thesis. The work is called The Generation Effect and moves through three generations of women in a single family, examining how the grandmother and mother have influenced the daughter. In writing this work, I wanted to replicate the principles of memory for the reader – does the reader forget as the narrator forgets? Do certain events in the text recall earlier events? The thesis combines poetry, prose, and essay and reads as nonfiction; however, while many of the stories are rooted in my own reality and most of the details are factual, I have imagined some of the events. After working so closely with this project, the falsified elements of the collection have become part of my actual memory, a testament to how we cannot trust ourselves.