Format:
1 online resource (351 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783653068351
Series Statement:
Cross-Roads Series v.14
Content:
The book presents a universal theory of autobiography which has a "triangular" model. Three stances: witness, confession and challenge to the reader, are always present, though usually one is dominant. Polish autobiographical writing is seen in relation to European autobiographies and against the background of history.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright information -- Translator's Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One Three Autobiographical Stances -- 1. The Field of Non-Fiction Prose -- Literature of Fact -- Literature of Personal Document -- The Essay -- 2. The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge -- The Rhetorical Sources of the Three Stances -- Interchangeability of Autobiographical Stances -- Gombrowicz Throws Down the Gauntlet -- Then Who Is the Addressee of the Diary's Challenge? -- Diaries after Gombrowicz -- Part Two Confessions, Confidences, Dreams -- 1. The Spiritual Autobiography in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature 1 -- The Mystical Autobiography -- The Spiritual Autobiography -- Protestant and Catholic Traditions Meet: John Henry Newman -- The Memoir -- The Library -- Conclusion -- 2. Intertextual Connections in the Spiritual Autobiography -- Four Types of Intertextual Allusion -- A Case of a Dense Network of Allusions -- Part Three Witness Inscribed in Place -- 1. Autobiographical Places and the Topographic Imagination: -- Individual Places of Memory -- The Topographic Imagination -- Types of Autobiographical Place -- 2. Home in the Autobiography and the Novel about Childhood -- Inside the House -- The Garden of Childhood -- The Land of Childhood -- Arriving - Homecoming -- The Death Knell for the Home of Childhood -- 3. Larders of Memory: -- Idyll and Tragedy: the Memory of the Borderlands -- A Hint of the Grotesque and the Invasion of History -- An Attempt At Epic Distance: Towards a Deconstruction of the Myth -- 4. The Centre and the Borderland Periphery in the Prose of Writers Born after World War II -- Polish Writers Whose Home Is the City of G ü nter Grass -- Describing Childhood after Yalta -- The Disturbance of the Borderlands Reaches the Centre -- 5. Space Disturbed: -- The End and the Beginning.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631674277
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783631674277
Language:
English