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- Title
- Omissions and additions: ethics and the epistolary writer
- Author(s)
- Whitting, Glenice Joy
- Abstract
- Contemporary creative epistolary writers can become confused when confronted with ethical issues relating to genre naming such as creative nonfiction; faction; autobiofiction, the nonfictional novel, ethnographic fiction and true fiction. These hybrid forms often do not require a human research ethics formal clearance, however, these stories must still show strong evidence of ethical interrogation. During the writing of the epistolary novel, Hens lay, people lie, many ethical issu·es emerged. The main four being: ethical treatment of people, my responsibility to myself as a writer, the contract between writer and reader and my responsibility to the novel. The connection between the ethical issues of women's writing and informal, creative forms of writing, such as diaries, journals and personal letters, will be the focus of this paper.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Source
- Proceedings of 'Ethical imaginations: writing worlds', the 16th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 23-25 November 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 199999 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
- Keyword(s)
- Autobiography; Autoethnography; Biography; Epistolarity
- Publisher
- Australasian Association of Writing Programs
- ISBN
- 9780980757309, 0980757304
- Publisher URL
- http://aawp.org.au/ethical-imaginations-writing-worlds-papers-refereed-proceedings-16th-conference-australasian-associa
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011. Published version reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
