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Closure in Mark Spragg’s Where Rivers Change Direction

Closure in Mark Spragg’s Where Rivers Change Direction Brian Dillon Western American Literature, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2005, pp. 148-173 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2005.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534999/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:52 GMT from JHU Libraries C l o s u r e i n M a r k S p r a g g ’s W h e r e Riv e r s Ch a n g e D ir e c t io n B r i a n D i l l o n Endings must be earned. T h is principle applies to a variety o f writing tasks, including autobiographies. Paradoxically, though, the life narrated in an autobiography continues to unfold beyond the final page’s account o f that life; any lessons endured and detailed earlier in the autobiography may not yet be absorbed or may be only in the process o f being absorbed. Autobiographies that narrate events from the author’s childhood and adolescence tend to reflect on the concept o f “ home,” and the endings o f such autobiographies frequently offer a revised perspective on what home means and the author’s relation to it. Recovering one’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature The Western Literature Association

Closure in Mark Spragg’s Where Rivers Change Direction

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Brian Dillon Western American Literature, Volume 40, Number 2, Summer 2005, pp. 148-173 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.2005.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/534999/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 18:52 GMT from JHU Libraries C l o s u r e i n M a r k S p r a g g ’s W h e r e Riv e r s Ch a n g e D ir e c t io n B r i a n D i l l o n Endings must be earned. T h is principle applies to a variety o f writing tasks, including autobiographies. Paradoxically, though, the life narrated in an autobiography continues to unfold beyond the final page’s account o f that life; any lessons endured and detailed earlier in the autobiography may not yet be absorbed or may be only in the process o f being absorbed. Autobiographies that narrate events from the author’s childhood and adolescence tend to reflect on the concept o f “ home,” and the endings o f such autobiographies frequently offer a revised perspective on what home means and the author’s relation to it. Recovering one’s

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