...Dan Shen; Dejin Xu This essay attempts to define unreliability in autobiography and explore its major forms and features in relation to unreliability in fiction. It starts with the construction of a narratological framework for autobiography, especially in terms of the narrative communicative...

...Gian Balsamo This essay discusses the literary genre of Proust's In Search of Lost Time as analogous with the genre peculiar to Dante's Commedia and Augustine's Confessions . Both Dante and Augustine narrate their autobiography in terms of a writerly vocation pursued by means of a love quest; both...

...Els Andringa The aim of this study is to investigate how reading experiences intertwine fiction and life and how such experiences change over time. Twelve reading autobiographies of young, motivated readers (age range twenty-two to thirty-two; six men, six women) were analyzed using qualitative...

..., vignettes, and meditations. While scholars of narrative agree that we witness a new dominance of the generic conventions of traditional autobiography—especially its trope of redemption and conversion narratives—among storytellers on digital platforms as well as in advertisement, marketing and political...

... theory and autobiography). This becomes possible because in Zoo, or Letters Not about Love language is no longer presented as a medium of representation but rather as a means of re-creating the writer's unstable literary and ideological position in postrevolutionary Russia and abroad. During his exile...

... and because it incorporates scenes borrowed from Proust's own life, the fictional narrative is routinely read as his thinly veiled autobiography, if not as evidence for any number of psychiatric disorders. At the very least, critics tend to have no hesitation in taking theses put forward by the narrator...

...) and the interplay between autobiography and poetics inform the gradual self-codification of his work. Of central importance is the dynamic whereby quotation montage is made to carry the transgressive force of Yeshurun's work—with ideological and historical, as well as poetic, consequences. All this leads...

... (or speaker-oriented,expressive) statements; and (3) ars-poetic (or text-oriented, textually self-reflexive) statements. “The Skaters” appears to be a descriptive poem; it has often been read as more or less veiled autobiography;and it is undeniably self-reflexive. I undertake to demonstrate how descriptions...

... of this revolutionary estrangement on the self. Furthermore, the memoirs reenacted this unsettling estrangement by incorporating elements of official Soviet genres, such as the trial deposition, the interrogation autobiography, and the letter to the government. As Shklovsky suggests, the effects of revolutionary...

... autobiography of the Dostoevskian narrator familiar to readers of thegreat novels, a narrator who dismantles the very structure of knowing and telling, a would-be guide to the text's action who becomes mired in a confession of what he does not understand. © 2005 by the Porter Institute for Poetics...

... narrative. The last section of the essay uses W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants , an especially complicated novel which combines fiction and nonfiction, biography and autobiography, as a case study. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Agee, James, and Walker Evans 1941 Let Us Now Praise...

... [In defense of auto- biography] is a veritable manifesto. Surprisingly to anglophone readers, autobiographical practices are still under siege as they were half a century ago, accused of verging on the pathological, of lacking the necessary re- quirements to be considered as art. Autobiography...

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.... Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2007 Amsler, Mark 1981 “Genre and Code in Abelard's Historia calamitatum,” Assays 1 : 35 -50. Bagge, Sverre 1993 “The Autobiography of Abelard and Medieval Individualism,” Journal of Medieval History 19 : 327 -50. Barth, John 1972...

... of autobiographical writing in general, which comes in many varieties), they all have at least one thing in common: a memoir relates ‘‘experiences that the writer has lived through1 Unlike a full-scale autobiography, a memoir can be confined to a single event or a single mo- ment in a life. It need not be the work...

... (London: Dent). Eakin, Paul John 1985 Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 1992a Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 1992b “ Writing Biography: A Perspective...

... “The Neurology of Art: An Overview,” in Neurology of the Arts: Painting, Music, Language , edited by F. Clifford Rose, 43 -76 (London: Imperial College Press). Roth, Philip 1989 The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (London: Cape). 1990 Deception (London: Cape). 1993 Operation Shylock...

... as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 2004b “Proust, His Narrator, and the Importance of the Distinction,” Poetics Today 25 : 91 -135. Lejeune, Philippe 1989 On Autobiography , translated by Katherine Leary (Minneapolis: Minnesota University...

...,” Critical Inquiry 9 : 545 -64. Rubidge, Bradley 1990 “Descartes' Meditations and Devotional Meditations,” Journal of the History of Ideas 51 : 27 -49. Schuster, Shlomit 2003 The Philosopher's Autobiography: A Qualitative Study (London: Praeger). Sweeney, Eileen 2002 “Literary Forms...