The Autobiographical Triangle : Witness, Confession, Challenge
Critical revised edition and translation by Jean Ward This book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of utterance involving three different stances. It is a personal testimony to experiences lived through, a confession of intimate inner experience an...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2018
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| Summary: | Critical revised edition and translation by Jean Ward This book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of utterance involving three different stances. It is a personal testimony to experiences lived through, a confession of intimate inner experience and a challenge addressed to the reader to engage in dialogue, enter into an argument or join in a game. The stances of witness, confession and challenge are always present, though usually one of them overshadows the other two. Polish memoirs, diaries and letters, as well as novels of a clearly personal character, are interpreted here in the context of the most important autobiographical texts of European literature. In the background, also, the historical events which have powerfully stamped Polish culture in the last two centuries are discreetly shown. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (350 p.) |
| ISBN: | b15550 9783653068351 9783631708606 9783631708613 9783631674277 |
| Access: | Open Access |