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SUMMARY:Life-Writing and the New Fantastic: Possibilities and Pleasures fo
 r Life-Writers and Readers - Professor Nicholas Royle (Sussex)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260210T173000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260210T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:For many\, life-writing aims to authentically narrate the ‘r
 eal’\, factual experiences of a life. Yet\, as Professor Nicholas Royle 
 contends\, expressions of ‘the weird’ and ‘the uncanny’—often as
 sociated with fantasy and supernatural literature—increasingly seep into
  contemporary life-writing. After all\, lived experience is not always str
 aightforward or easily narrated: memory can blur and distort\, coincidence
  can feel charged with meaning\, and the everyday can suddenly seem strang
 e or out of place.\n\nRoyle calls this contemporary drift of strangeness i
 nto the ‘real’ the ‘New Fantastic’: a way of writing that narrates
  ordinary life while registering its weirdness—its slips\, shocks\, and 
 uncanny moments. In turn\, this lecture asks: What can these engagements w
 ith the weird and the uncanny tell us about life-writing today?\n\nOpen to
  all. *_Registration is strongly recommended\, and required for online att
 endance_*.\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Nicholas Royle (Sussex)
LOCATION:Wolfson College (The Buttery\, and online via Zoom)\, Linton Road
  OX2 6UD
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5e22d990-113d-45df-9953-a454b04d777c/
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