The Autobiographical Triangle; Witness, Confession, Challenge (14) (Cross-Roads: Polish Studies in Culture, Literary Theory, and History)

Czerminska

ISBN 10: 3631674279 / ISBN 13: 9783631674277

Editore: Peter Lang D, 2019

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Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Malgorzata Czerminska is a Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland, and specialises in non-fiction, theory and history of autobiography, geopoetics and links between literature and visual art. She has lectured in Polish literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) and Cambridge University (UK).

Jean Ward is an Associate Professor of the University of Gdansk, Poland.

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Titolo: The Autobiographical Triangle; Witness, ...
Casa editrice: Peter Lang D
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good