Masters Thesis

Composing Herself: Joan Didion and the Art of Public Bereavement

Composing Herself: Joan Didion and the Art of Public Bereavement” unpacks Didion's psychological process of “magical thinking” and elucidates how Didion depicts negotiating feelings of abandonment and denial as she guides her readers into her candid progression into grief, utilizing literature, research, and her writing process to make sense of her identity as a new widow traversing the unfamiliar landscape of bereavement through memory.

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