Asymptotic autobiography : fairy tales as narrative map in the writing of Zelda Fitzgerald
When a writer, usually a woman, uses fairy tales as a veil through which to narrate a story of her life, I call this practice asymptotic autobiography. In mathematics, the asymptote is a straight line that a curve approaches increasingly closely, but never actually touches. I define “asymptotic auto...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-08-263 |