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ELEMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN Ch. BRONTË`S NOVEL “JANE EYRE” [PDF]
Stable interest of readers in the autobiographies of famous people encourages authors to find different ways of presence / absence of the author-narrator in the text, to balance the relationship between biographical truth and fiction in contradictory ...
Svitlana K. Revutska, Maryna V. Forgel
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Biblical mythisation in Štefan Pilárik’s autobiographical writing [PDF]
The life of the Slovak Protestant priest and Baroque period author Štefan Pilárik (1615 – 1693) was filled with hardships. Pilárik was forced to convert by the Jesuits – and several times during his life at that –, in 1663, he was captured by the Tatars ...
Ingrid Papp
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Davis's poetic dialogue with Leiris's autobiography [PDF]
In his article "Davis's Poetic Dialogue with Leiris's Autobiography" Jonathan Evans analyzes Lydia Davis's translation of the first two parts of Michel Leiris's autobiography, which shows an encounter between two writers.
Evans, Jonathan
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Gender, Politics, and Participation: The Contests of Autobiographical Writings in Poland
This article discusses the connections between gender, politics of participation and of truth through the lens of life stories. They take as an example the contests of autobiographical writing which took place in Poland between the two World Wars. Poland
Dietlind Huechtker
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In this article we reflect on reflection. To do this, we share examples of pedagogic approaches used in undergraduate performance programmes at York St John University that re-situate reflective practice within creative practice.
Orr, Susan +2 more
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Narrating(−)Life – In Lieu of an Introduction [PDF]
‘Narrating life’ – this phrase warrants some investigation. Who is the ‘agency’ or the ‘subject’ in this phrase, ‘narrating’ or ‘life’? Who, or what, is narrating life?
Herbrechter, Stefan
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Autobiographical Writings [PDF]
Emerging out of the traditions of exemplary lives and self-analysis at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the genre of spiritual autobiography writing is fluid and unstable both textually and generically. The individualism that has often been taken to define the autobiographical project is problematized in these accounts, which tend to ...
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The Afterlives of Those Who Write Themselves. Rethinking Autobiographical Archives
As those who write themselves, life narrators are readers, interpreters, and curators of the archival material, both intimate and impersonal, accrued during their lifetimes.
Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson
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Glory box: Tim Miller's autobiography of the future [PDF]
Performance artist Tim Miller has been making autobiographical work for more than twenty years. Dee Heddon explores Miller's recent show, Glory Box (2001), arguing that, both in his practice and his use of his own life stories, he is attempting not only ...
Heddon, D.
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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