E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…Compared to the autobiographical impulse of today’s travel writers, however, Godwin’s account is maddeningly self-effacing, with virtually no personal details vouchsafed. …”
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s paratexts: ‘j’ai senti, j’ai aimé, j’ai parlé’ by Simon Davies

“…A text, subsequently entitled ‘Avis’, which precedes his tale L’Arcadie (also in the 1786 volume of the Études), displays autobiographical details which illustrate his refusal to be anyone’s protégé and thus lose his independence. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…Critics have read the text as an autobiographical reckoning with mortality; as authorial wish-fulfillment; as a self-reflexive satire of Decadence; as an exposé of excess; as a ‘decadent counterpublic’ that critiques nationalism; and as a parodic rewriting of Wagner that seeks to undercut his political and aesthetic legacies. …”
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“Yo sé hablar, dije” The conditions for Peruvian domestic workers to speak out for their rights by Carola Mick

“…Based on the analysis of autobiographic stories told by Peruvian domestic workers in Lima, the present article discusses the conditions for these women to stand up and speak out for their rights. …”
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The Uncannily Intimate in Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee: An Aesthetics of the Suddenly Obscene by Anne COMBARNOUS

“…This will be considered in relationship with the specific aesthetics of the obscene Guy Maddin deploys in the first film of what he defined as his ‘autobiographic’ trilogy, Cowards Bend the Knee (2003), an aesthetics that raises the question of individual and artistic responsibility, as well as of the viewer’s own responsibility. …”
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“Lots of doctoring, with great success”: Healthcare within the Port Royal Experiment and the Work of Laura M. Towne by Antje Dallmann

“…This article traces how Towne as homeopathic practitioner uses medical tropes in autobiographic documents intended for publication or circulation in the North to increase her own authority within a wartime discourse and how, at the same time, she avoids reflection about medical crises.…”
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Las memorias de Mario Onaindia: geminación e iluminaciones by Miguel Olmos

“…These revealing doublings allow, on the one hand, to establish milestones in time and articulate the course of remembrance; on the other, they test the coherence of the autobiographer, confronted with his inexhaustible depth of experience, either lived or remembered. …”
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Papa’s Baby, Mama’s Maybe: Reading the Black Paternal Palimpsest and White Maternal Present Absence in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand by Yolanda M. Manora

“…Given her socially and psychically untenable subject position as the “too dark to pass” child in a white family and the sense of isolation and, ultimately, abandonment, that attended it, it’s little wonder that Larsen’s autobiographically-informed fictional narratives can be read as sites of relational failure. …”
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Propriétés stylistiques de l’auto-sociobiographie : l’exemplification par l’écriture d’Annie Ernaux by Bérengère Moricheau-Airaud

“…These auto-sociobiography characters induce the work of dynamics that transforms the reality of one life into a common reality: Annie Ernaux’s writing is a place of tensions, between social and literature realities, between conjecture and exemplified realities; the leap from one plan to another induces a distancing search from the intimate; the autobiographic pact is thus remodeled. These transformations determine a writing socialization, in the collectivization of enunciation marks, in the extension of the references and in the structures unspecialization. …”
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Covid-19 as a Catalyst for Strengthening Research Practice in BRICS’ Universities by Ntsofa Monyela, Neo Mofokeng

“…This paper relies strongly on the experiences of the authors as a primary source and also conceptually harvested from the existing literature. The autobiographic element study allows the researchers to explore the intersection between themselves and the subject they are studying, permitting the reader to understand this intersection and reflect on their own experiences (Given, 2008). …”
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