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The Autobiographical Pact as an Architectural Palimpsest: Judita Vaičiūnaitė’s Mabre viešbutis
Colloquia, 2021 The article reconsiders the idea of Philippe Lejeune’s autobiographical pact. In both Lithuanian and Western theoretical discourses, Lejeune’s ideas are usually combined with narrative and linguistic insights that reveal the position of a narrator. In this article, the concept of the autobiographical pact is revised using the concepts of Gérard Genette’
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BREAKING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PACT: TRUTH AND LIFE-WRITING IN ALISON BECHDEL’S FUN HOME.
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, 2020 Much of the focus on truth in critical responses to Fun Home has surrounded the use of archival evidence and the access to truth provided by the graphic medium. This article will explore these issues as well as the relationship to truth established by the text’s metafictional devices and interactions with genre, particularly the genre of the ...
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“Who is who—the face as a mask” Péter Esterházy’S autobiographical pact with his readers (Celestial Harmonies, Revised Edition) [PDF]
Hungarian Studies, 2016 The much-cited theorist of autobiography, Philippe Lejeune, uses the term autobiographical pact to describe the silent contract between the author and reader, in which textual (and extra-textual) signals about referential and autobiographical nature of a narrative are understood as coming from the author and are accepted by the reader (Lejeune, 1989, 3–
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Cannons and Rubber boats: Oriana Fallaci and the 'Clash of Civilizations' [PDF]
, 2006 Written in October 2001 as a 'gut reaction' to the attack on the Twin Towers, and published first as a long article in the daily Corriere della Sera and then in book form (in its original shape, twice as long as the article) in December 2001, Oriana ...
Orsini, Francesca
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Autobiographie ou autofiction chez Amélie Nothomb ? [PDF]
Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2014 In his book Poetics, Aristotle uses the word mimèsis to describe the imitative arts, that is to say the different poetic forms and the representation of reality in literature.
Henri Delangue
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Revista de Historia, 2016 This article analizes the labors of memory in Vanessa Núñez Handal’s novel Dios tenía miedo. By looking into both the familial and the national past in El Salvador through an autofictional exploration of the ways in which her own family was involved in ...
Valeria Grinberg Pla
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The body in the library: adventures in realism [PDF]
, 2012 This essay looks at two aspects of the virtual ‘material world’ of realist fiction: objects encountered by the protagonist and the latter’s body. Taking from Sartre two angles on the realist pact by which readers agree to lend their bodies, feelings ...
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Autobiography speech, a re-creator element to comics
Lumina, 2015 This paper proposes to relate autobiographical text to comics, in particular the graphic novel format. Traditionally comic books were usually related to humorous themes and a minor form of art, mainly because of a limited graphical technique due to the ...
Bernard Martoni
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Det individuella möter det kollektiva. Självbiografiskt stoff i barndomsskildringar från det svenska folkhemmet [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of the article are autobiographical threads present in Swedish stories about childhood and adolescence published after 1986 that form part of the narrative pertaining to the origins, evolution and decline of the Swedish welfare state ...
Żmuda-Trzebiatowska, Magdalena
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