Life-Writing, Subjectivity, Art: Keith Douglas in Egypt During the Second World War by Andrea RUMMEL

“…By looking at the several modes of Douglas’s war writing (autobiography, letters, poetry and the short story), it traces the evolution of the autobiographical into the poetical and outlines Douglas’s aesthetic strategies of turning (war) experience into art or, on a more general level, demonstrates how life-writing translates itself into poetry.…”
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Le brocanteur de Charleville by Julien Bondaz

“…Designed as a tribute to Jean Jamin, who died on 21 January 2022, this article questions the place of literature and autobiographical writing in his works. It focuses on the patterns of disparition and memory, but also of flea market and shipwreck in his writings, and it sheds light on the importance of Arthur Rimbaud and Michel Leiris in his trajectory. …”
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Ovidian intertextuality and metamorphosis in Prudentius by Philip Hardie

“…The personal Praefatio and Epilogus allude mostly to Horace, and hardly at all to Virgil (not surprising, given Horace’s use of first-person genres in autobiographical mode). In this paper I focus on allusion to a poet arguably almost as important for Prudentius as Virgil and Horace, Ovid. …”
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„Моя двойная жизнь” Сары Бернар в восприятии М. Цветаевой by Роман Войтехович

“…The book by Bernhardt is one of the pillars of Tsvetaeva’s autobiographical myth, including the image of the coffin in which Sarah was having a rest and anecdotes about this coffin. …”
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« Je viens d’achever le billet que j’avais dans la tête » by Adrien Rannaud

“…The paper discusses how this interdependence processes the diary form of narrative into an autobiographical story that first appeared in newspapers, then in books. …”
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María Zambrano, la révélation de la naissance by Jean Marc Sourdillon

“…María Zambrano, in her autobiographical works, discovers that revelation in her own life. …”
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Sergio Pitol e os disfarces da autobiografia by Rafael Gutiérrez

“…These texts conform a literary autobiography created from a mixture of critic, road diaries and autobiographical narrative. The article analizes the way in which the writer tells his life through his readings and his creative process, the clues about his work that can be found in these texts, as well as the main characteristics and precedents of these hybrid contemporary forms.…”
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Valeur du témoignage et du code chez N. Scott Momaday by Anne Garrait-Bourrier

“…To do so he uses varied generic forms such as poetry, painting and autobiographical narratives. What he actually conveys, more than this mythical and traditional background, is a very original and genuine mode of writing, a new literary genre based on codes to be deciphered. …”
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Grenzüberschreitungen und Grenzauflösungen in literarischen Darstellungen der Wirtschaftswelt by Jolanta Pacyniak

“…Another reference point is the literary game that takes place between the fictional and autobiographical elements on the one hand, and the appearance and reality in economic affairs on the other. …”
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Appartenance confessionnelle et allégeances politiques : William Hale White (« Mark Rutherford ») et l’évolution de la non conformité religieuse en Grande-Bretagne au XIXe siècle... by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…In his fictional autobiographical writings, William Hale White describes the agonies of religious doubt in the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Figures de l’exil dans New Grub Street de George Gissing by Christine Huguet

“…In New Grub Street, Gissing’s acknowledged masterpiece combining autobiographical resonances with an insider’s dissection of the contemporary literary scene, estrangement is raised to the level of systematised exile, it is monopolised and articulated as a logical predicate.This paper will look at Gissing’s comprehensive vertical exploration of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in this 1891 novel which, being deeply rooted in material and metaphysical uprooting, tremulously urges the paradox of exile at home.…”
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YOU The Obscure, un pronom très personnel by Monique DE MATTIA-VIVIES

“…Report from the Interior by Paul Auster is an autobiographical narrative told in the 2nd person. This essay focuses, from a linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective, on the title itself, Report from the Interior, as bearing the trace of a conflict, which is reflected in the use of the 2nd person. …”
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“The Body Hair that Grows on the Head” by Donyol Dondrup, Charlene Makley

“…In this chapter, we introduce readers to the Amdo Tibetan comedian, poet and performance artist Menla-kyap [sMan bla skyabs] through a translation of his 2009 autobiographical narrative, “Views on Hair and Hairstyles.” …”
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Remembering what did not happen: the role of hypnosis in memory recall and false memories formation by Donato Giuseppe Leo, Donato Giuseppe Leo, Davide Bruno, Riccardo Proietti, Riccardo Proietti

“…Particularly, the employment of hypnosis in autobiographical recall (hypnotic regression) has been accused of favoring the creation of false memories, leading to therapeutic fallacy. …”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…This article studies how the Q’eqchi’ of Cahabón (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala) relate to different past times, by examining the dynamics of two broad categories of narrative genre: established “stories” about ancestors and more autobiographical narratives about individual “suffering” experienced in recent times. …”
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Постреволюционная действительность глазами „маленького человека”. Мемуарная проза Вениамина Корсака... by Antoni Bortnowski

“…Veniamin Korsak is a writer who represents the Russian literature of the first wave of emigration and is known primarily through a series of five autobiographical no- vels presenting the story of a simple man who went into German captivity during World War I and then returned to Russia, which was overwhelmed by civil war. …”
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B.S. Johnson ou l’équilibre de l’écart by Vanessa Guignery

“…This double movement (revealing the distance, reducing the distance) will be analysed in relation to Johnson’s theory based on a poetics of truth which rejects the lies of the novelistic form and places the autobiographical subject at the heart of the work. In the process, we will determine which forms of mimesis and of relationship to the real Johnson manages to establish.…”
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Los niños de la Transición : nuevos paradigmas autobiográficos en la literatura española de la última década by Concepción Martín Huertas

“…I am talking about the recent success of autobiographies and autobiographical novels that have been flooding publishing houses lately. …”
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Towards “Autopoetics” (retour sur e-Rea 5.2 2007) by Hélène AJI

“…The outright dismissal of poetry as the locus for autobiography is thus revisited, and the formal experiments allowed by the poetic form to question the narrative linearity and coherency of the prose autobiographical account are historicized. The idea of an “autopoetics” then emerges from the possibility that the poetic could be the mode whose discontinuities align with the representation of today’s disorganized and disorganizing identities.…”
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Pour une approche organologique de la littérature by Simon Woillet

“…This article aims at establishing a method of comparative reading of Stendhal’s autobiographical texts and the so-called “psychotic” writings, which inspired the writers of the ideophonographic avant-gardes of the 20th century (from Surrealism to Dadaism via Lettrism). …”
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