Sample Thesis Statements and Questions
Memory can be considered as an imaginative reconstruction of one's life. What role can memory play in the fictionalisation of life-writing texts?
The creative process of writing can exaggerate certain elements of a person's life story. To what degree must a work be factual for it to be considered as 'life writing'?
Genre incorparates a number of historical and cultural contexts. Examine the extent to which genres such as life writing rely on these contexts.
The use of the person pronoun "I" is considered to be a defining feature of autobiographical writing. How can authors manipulate the narration of their works to change this perception and blur the aspects of their private lifes?
A genre can be considered to represent a characteristic value. What are the main values of life writing and how can this in turn create an ethical writing code that the author is believed to abide by?
The author is often working in solitude and expressing their own personal perspective on life. To what extent can this statement be true? Or is the author always influenced by their society and context?
The shaping of a text's meaning can result not within the single text but from a variety of other texts. How does this directly relate to the 'life writing' genre? Does the audience read a work intratextually or intertexually?
Author's use a number of styllistic devies to convey literary meaning and personal intention. Does the genre of life writing have distinctive techniques that can be applied to all works believed to belong to this genre?
Fiction writers can heavily use autobiographical elements in their works based on their own experiences. Can these words be described as "thinly disguised autobiographies" and considered part of the life writing genre?
Recollection and memory can be seen as different elements of the recording lives process. How can this contribute to the confusion of distinguishing between factual and fictional elements in a work?
Blogs and social networking sites are considered forms of life writing. How does the life writing genre evolve with technological developments?
Memories are valuable but intertwined within psychological and emotional concerns. Do these memories lead to "edited versions of fiction" or can memories be used to depict a life factually?
Life writing can serve an ethical purpose by allowing marginalised groups to voice their identity. In what other ways can life writing alter cultural contexts and change stereotypes?
As a genre life writing incorparates a wide variety of texts and can in some sense, appear ambiguous in what is correctly "classified" as life writing. How has society altered our perceptions of life writing and how has the popularity of life writing affected its ethical framework?
The genre of life writing cannot be specified to one historical context. Explain the major developments in life writing and how life writing may be influenced significantly by history but still retain a conventional and recognisable literary style or use of literary technique.
The creative process of writing can exaggerate certain elements of a person's life story. To what degree must a work be factual for it to be considered as 'life writing'?
Genre incorparates a number of historical and cultural contexts. Examine the extent to which genres such as life writing rely on these contexts.
The use of the person pronoun "I" is considered to be a defining feature of autobiographical writing. How can authors manipulate the narration of their works to change this perception and blur the aspects of their private lifes?
A genre can be considered to represent a characteristic value. What are the main values of life writing and how can this in turn create an ethical writing code that the author is believed to abide by?
The author is often working in solitude and expressing their own personal perspective on life. To what extent can this statement be true? Or is the author always influenced by their society and context?
The shaping of a text's meaning can result not within the single text but from a variety of other texts. How does this directly relate to the 'life writing' genre? Does the audience read a work intratextually or intertexually?
Author's use a number of styllistic devies to convey literary meaning and personal intention. Does the genre of life writing have distinctive techniques that can be applied to all works believed to belong to this genre?
Fiction writers can heavily use autobiographical elements in their works based on their own experiences. Can these words be described as "thinly disguised autobiographies" and considered part of the life writing genre?
Recollection and memory can be seen as different elements of the recording lives process. How can this contribute to the confusion of distinguishing between factual and fictional elements in a work?
Blogs and social networking sites are considered forms of life writing. How does the life writing genre evolve with technological developments?
Memories are valuable but intertwined within psychological and emotional concerns. Do these memories lead to "edited versions of fiction" or can memories be used to depict a life factually?
Life writing can serve an ethical purpose by allowing marginalised groups to voice their identity. In what other ways can life writing alter cultural contexts and change stereotypes?
As a genre life writing incorparates a wide variety of texts and can in some sense, appear ambiguous in what is correctly "classified" as life writing. How has society altered our perceptions of life writing and how has the popularity of life writing affected its ethical framework?
The genre of life writing cannot be specified to one historical context. Explain the major developments in life writing and how life writing may be influenced significantly by history but still retain a conventional and recognisable literary style or use of literary technique.