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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.



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Three Autobiographical Stances: Witness, Confession, Challenge – Autobiographical Places – Topographic Imagination – Home – Polish Borderlands – Spiritual Autobiography and Intertextuality – Gombrowicz – Miłosz – Konwicki – Korczak – Space and History – Role of the reader – Autobiographical Writing and Co-Humanism

The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness,

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      Publisher Peter Lang AG
      Published 16 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9783631674277
      978-3631674277
      ISBN-10 3631674279

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      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents

      Three Autobiographical Stances: Witness, Confession, Challenge – Autobiographical Places – Topographic Imagination – Home – Polish Borderlands – Spiritual Autobiography and Intertextuality – Gombrowicz – Miłosz – Konwicki – Korczak – Space and History – Role of the reader – Autobiographical Writing and Co-Humanism

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