Aktywność sportowa i kibicowanie w prozie Krzysztofa Vargi by Tomasz Sahaj

“…Varga’s original work fits into the narrative created by other sports-fan-oriented Polish writers, whose autobiographical works are animated by various literary and cultural-social discourses.…”
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En mode REC[ORD]  by Jean-Jacques Castéret

“…These trajectories between two worlds, opposing town and country, capital and periphery, also take place in an in-between period that is bound to raise questions, the time of an invisible initiation (Fabre) with tape recorder in hand, of which the resulting archive and autobiographical narrative are the audible mark.…”
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Finding a rhythm within by Jan-Albert van den Berg

“… Intimate, a-rhythm autobiographical experiences, originating from my own life text, serve as initial rhetorical spaces in which possible melodies of persuasion can be heard. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…On the one hand Rousseau’s work can be considered as an autobiographical narrative, but on the other hand it can be treated as fiction. …”
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Autographs, Autobiography, and Black History in Britain: the Congo House Autograph Book by Robert Burroughs

“…Though there exist substantial texts written by black people in late-nineteenth-century Britain, including texts of an autobiographical type (broadly defined), self-expressive writings by black people are unquestionably rare. …”
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“If only you could see me now”: Autoportrait et théâtralité dans les lettres de Sylvia Plath à sa mère by Laure DE NERVAUX-GAVOTY

“…Sylvia Plath's work is haunted by the question of self-representation; her poems, her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, her short stories, her diary, and her correspondence can be read as facets of a self-portrait diffracted through the different mirrors of these literary genres. …”
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“What’s in a Name?”: H.D.’s Re-Vision of Shakespeare by Claire Conilleau

“…His plays underwrite H.D.’s autobiographical prose in relation to family, history and identity. …”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…The article examines Newman’s skills (and occasional weaknesses) as a novelist, the (relative) value of his historical tableaux and, most importantly, the autobiographical content and the religious dimension of each, in particular Callista (1856). …”
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“And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself” Sylvia Plath’s Autothanatography or Death Writing by Nicolas Pierre BOILEAU

“…Autothanatography suggests that there is a form of autobiographical writing that is less interested in the author’s past life than in the future/ upcoming death of the subject. …”
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The Bell Jar : Troubles dans le genre by Angélique THOMINE-RAPP

“…At times referred to as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel and at other times as a non-fiction novel, her work sparks debate on how one might categorize its genre. …”
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« Retail the coda » : le retour au sonnet dans l’œuvre récente de Geoffrey Hill by Carole Birkan-Berz

“…The sonnet, with a fresh autobiographical ‘I’ and a renewed political dimension, thus re-anchors Hill in a Romantic tradition.…”
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Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography by Adetayo Alabi

“…How the autobiographical genre develops that umbilical cord that links the Yorubas in Africa and the diaspora through the Ori Olokun episode is also considered. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…The inclusion of texts that previously sat outside the canon has proved them powerful enough to disrupt and complicate understandings of the genre, and beyond this, the very paradigms upon which the study of autobiographical writing was historically predicated.  …”
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DeMille and Danger: Seven Heuristic Taxonomic Categories of His Hollywood (Mis)Adventures by Anton Karl Kozlovic

“…Utilising humanist film criticism as the guiding analytical lens, the critical DeMille, autobiographical and related anecdotal literature was selectively reviewed for illustrative instances of this infamous production penchant. …”
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Female Religiosity in Self-Narration: Some Indicative Elements and Suggestions from Empirical Materials by Giorgia Pinelli

“…This study stems from a collection of autobiographical narrations collected during a seminar held in February 2018 involving a small group of adults, representing the three major monotheistic religions: Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam. …”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…The working-class poets produced a limited but significant number of industrial and largely autobiographical poems too. The first objective of this paper is to present the voices of the upper and middle-class women poets, who show sympathy for the labourers as they try to advance the cause of the female workers. …”
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Dramatic Autobiography: the Poetic Voice Recreating Itself in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Bride’s Prelude’ by Raphaël Rigal

“…For an author such as Rossetti, who stayed clear of politics most of his life, fake autobiographies might be seen as a way to engage with contemporary issues, through the prism of someone else’s life and borrowed autobiographical voices.…”
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The Cost of Creativity in the Work of Gabriel Josipovici by Victoria Best

“…This article explores Gabriel Josipovici’s preoccupation with the human cost of creating art in his theoretical, autobiographical and fictional works. It considers in particular the relationship between creativity and family bonds with special reference to the unusually deep bond that formed between the author and his mother.…”
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Sauvés de l’oubli by Marianne Berissi

“…A Chilhood Behind the Iron Curtain, and Tomi Ungerer's autobiographical work, Tomi, a Childhood under the Nazis, focuses on the status of ego documents and archive in historical stories for youth. …”
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Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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