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Autobiography as Political Legacy in Transition Periods. Benjamin Franklin and Konrad Adenauer Compared

European Journal of Life Writing, 2020
Developing consciousness of epoch as a category of autobiographical time, the article approaches the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Konrad Adenauer as acts of political communication in historico-biographical transition periods.
Volker Depkat
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“Autobiographies” from Angola: some considerations about a genre

Revista Maracanan, 2017
This essay discusses textuality as category of anthropological discourse and the treatment of autobiography in the social sciences.  The idea of text as a tissue of words – from the most ritualised to the less formal − is contrasted to the text as an ...
Madalina Elena Florescu
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Reply to “‘Oh This Division of Allegiance!’ Being Both Irish and British?”

ABEI Journal, 2013
The author responds to Elizabeth Malcolm ‘s critique to the book The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001. Harte reflects upon the process of making an anthology and points out the challenging aspects of his research ...
Liam Harte
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Introduction 1. Infancy 2. Youth 3. Womanhood 4. Fame 5. Foreign life - western 6. Consequences - without 7. Consequences - within 8. Consequences - to life passive 9. Foreign life - eastern 10. Home 11. Philosophy 12. The life sorrow 13. Work 14.
Harriet Martineau, M. Chapman
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L’invention de soi : autobiographie et trajectoire sociale de Graça Aranha

Brésil(s), 2016
This article examines the autobiography of Graça Aranha, O meu próprio romance, bringing together biography and autobiography, with two objectives.
Angela Alonso
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Autobiography as myth of origin [PDF]

The following PhD thesis will explore the connection between autobiography and myth of origin: On the one hand, I am concerned with the ways in which women autobiographers rewrite classical myths of origin; on the other hand, I contend that ...
Lindenmeyer, Antje
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Anaphora as a component of pragmatic correlation of genre of autobiography

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2012
The article is devoted to the analysis of anaphoric expression of pragmatic text correlation of genre of autobiography. The prose by French writer Andre Gide is chosen as a material for this research.
E B Savelyeva
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My Pen, My Words

Caste
[This poem is dedicated to respected Om Prakash Valmiki, who wrote the first Dalit autobiography in Hindi published in 1997, “Joothan” (Leftovers). The poem was originally written in 2009 and recited in a program chaired by Mr. Valmiki.
GAURAV J. PATHANIA
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A bibliographical autobiography

PSL Quarterly Review, 2013
The paper is a contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on the professional experiences of distinguished economists which the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review started in 1979. In it, Kenneth E.
K.E. BOULDING
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The West Wind Blows: The Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale

, 2017
Autobiography of Edward Everett Dale covering his life from his birth in 1879 until his death in 1972; the book includes stories dealing with Indian affairs, schooling, and his becoming a professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972
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