Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

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Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Edited by: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

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Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, Univ. of Münster, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Autobiography/Autofiction Across Disciplines Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1.1 Anthropology Deborah Reed-Danahay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
1.2 Brain Research and Neuroscience Hans J. Markowitsch and Angelica Staniloiu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
1.3 Cultural Studies Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	30
1.4 Deconstruction Linda Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
1.5 Discourse Analysis Manfred Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
1.6 Gender Studies Anne Fleig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
1.7 Hermeneutics Ulrich Breuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
1.8 History Volker Depkat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
1.9 History of Art Gerd Blum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
1.10 Media Studies Matthias Christen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
1.11 Narratology Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
1.12 Philosophy Dieter Thomä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
1.13 Political Science Tracey Arklay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
1.14 Postcolonialism Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
1.15 Psychology Rüdiger F. Pohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
1.16 Psychoanalysis Christine Kirchhoff and Boris Traue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
1.17 Religious Studies Jens Schlamelcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
1.18 Rhetoric Melanie Möller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
1.19 Social History Helga Schwalm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
1.20 Sociology Gabriele Rosenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
1.21 Structuralism Erik Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
1.22 Theology Thomas K. Kuhn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
2.1 Apologia Karl Enenkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
2.2 Authenticity Michael Quante and Michael Kühler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
2.3 Autobiographical Pact Lut Missinne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
2.4 Autobiography and the Nation Lydia Wevers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	228
2.5 Autoethnography Christian Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
2.6 Autofiction Claudia Gronemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
2.7 Automediality Christian Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
2.8 Ego-documents Volker Depkat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	262
2.9 Ethics of Autobiography Stephen Mansfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
2.10 Ethos and Pathos Roman B. Kremer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
2.11 Facts and Fiction Volker Depkat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
2.12 Gender Angelika Schaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
2.13 Genealogy Angelika Malinar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
2.14 The (Term) ‘I’ Michael Quante and Annette Dufner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
2.15 Identity Michael Quante and Annette Dufner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
2.16 Individuality Eric Achermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	310
2.17 Intentionality Eric Achermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
2.18 Life and Work Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
2.19 Life Writing Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	336
2.20 Memory Angelika Schaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	342
2.21 Mimesis Florian Klaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	350
2.22 Minorities Angelika Schaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	358
2.23 Paratext Frauke Bode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	364
2.24 Personality Michael Quante, Annette Dufner and Michael Kühler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	372
2.25 Prosopopoeia Richard Block Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
2.26 Referentiality Regine Strätling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
2.27 The ‘Self’ Michael Quante and Michael Kühler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	390
2.28 Sincerity Annette Dufner and Michael Kühler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	398
2.29 Subjectivity Dieter Thomä Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	402
2.30 Time and Space Anne Fleig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	410
2.31 Topics of Autobiography/Autofiction Gabriele Linke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	416
2.32 Trauma Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
2.33 Truth Eric Achermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
3.1 Architecture Salvatore Pisani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	437
3.2 Autobiographical/Autofictional Comics Martin Klepper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
3.3 Autobiographical/Autofictional Film Matthias Christen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	446
3.4 Autobiographical Music Christiane Wiesenfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	456
3.5 Autobiographical Novel Lut Missinne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	464
3.6 Autobiographical/Autofictional Poetry Frauke Bode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	473
3.7 Autobiographical Visual Arts, esp. Painting Gerd Blum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	485
3.8 Autobiography and Drama/Theater Anne Fleig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
3.9 Autobiography Helga Schwalm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	503
3.10 Confessions Ulrich Breuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	520
3.11 Conversations Alexandra Georgakopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	532
3.12 Curriculum Vitae Bernd Blöbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	537
3.13 Autobiography in/as Dance Gabriele Brandstetter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	542
3.14 Diary Schamma Schahadat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
3.15 Digital Life Narratives/Digital Selves/ Autobiography on the Internet Innokentij Kreknin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
3.16 Epistolary Autobiography Karl Enenkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	565
3.17 Epitaph Salvatore Pisani and Katharina Siebenmorgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579
3.18 Essay Karin Westerwelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	584
3.19 Fake Autobiography Richard Block Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	595
3.20 Fictional Autobiography Hans Vandevoorde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	603
3.21 Interview Gabriele Rosenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	611
3.22 Letter, E-mail, SMS Davide Giuriato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	617
3.23 Memoirs Christiane Lahusen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	626
3.24 Metaautobiography Christiane Struth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	636
3.25 Oral Forms Susanne Gehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	640
3.26 Photography Matthias Christen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	648
3.27 Self-Narration Arnaud Schmitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	658
3.28 Self-Portrait Salvatore Pisani and Katharina Siebenmorgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	663
3.29 Testimony/Testimonio Ulrich Mücke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	669
3.30 Travelogue Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	675
Introduction: Autobiography Across the World, Or, How Not To Be Eurocentric Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	683
1.1 Antiquity Melanie Möller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	691
1.2 Middle Ages Sonja Glauch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	710
1.3.1 Autobiographies in the Latin Language (1300–1700) Karl Enenkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	724
1.3.2 Autobiographies in the Vernacular Karin Westerwelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	732
1.4 Modernity Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	753
1.5 Postmodernity Anna Thiemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	778
2.1 Introduction Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	807
2.2 Classical Arabic Autobiography Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	827
2.3 Modern Autobiography Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	850
3.1 Introduction Susanne Gehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	897
3.2 Pre-colonial Times Susanne Gehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	901
3.3 Colonial Times Susanne Gehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	910
3.4 Post-colonial Times Susanne Gehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	923
4.1 India Angelika Malinar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	967
4.2 South East Asia: The Case of Laos Vatthana Pholsena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	985
4.3 Indonesia Monika Arnez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1006
4.4 China Reinhard Emmerich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1026
4.5 Japan Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1059
5.1 Australia Kylie Crane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1087
5.2 New Zealand Lydia Wevers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1114
6.1 Latin America Ulrich Mücke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1143
6.2 North America Alfred Hornung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1205
7. Autobiography in the Globalized World Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1263
Introduction: Exemplary Autobiographical/ Autofictional Texts, Or, How Not To Set Up A Canon Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1281
1. Isocrates: Περὶ ἀντιδόσεως (353 BCE) [Antidosis] and Lucian: Περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου (2nd Century) [Dream] Peter von Möllendorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1285
2. Plato: ἀπολογία (3rd Century BCE) [Apology of Socrates] Thomas A. Blackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1301
3. Sima Qian: 報任少卿書 [Letter to Ren An] (93/91 BCE) and Other Autobiographical Writings Reinhard Emmerich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1312
4. Publius Ovidius Naso: Tristium Libri V (8–12) [“Sorrows”] Melanie Möller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1328
5. Aurelius Augustinus: Confessiones (397–401) [Confessions] Christian Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1342
6. Izumi Shikibu: 和泉式部日記 (11th Century) [The Izumi Shikibu Diary] Judit Árokay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1359
7. Muḥammad al-Ghazālī: المنقذ من الضلال (5th/12th Century) [Deliverance from Error and Attachment to the Lord of Might and Majesty] Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1373
8. Francesco Petrarca: Secretum [‘My Secret’; ‘Secret Book’] / De secreto conflictu curarum mearum (Mid-14th Century) [On the Secret Struggles of My Mind] Karl Enenkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1386
9. ‘ Abd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn: التعريف بابن خلدون (8th/14th Century) [The Autobiography] Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1397
10. Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur: بابر نامه (First Third of 10th/16th Century until 935/1529) [Baburnama, ‘Babur’s Book’] Kristina Rzehak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1410
11. Teresa de Ávila: El Libro de la Vida (1562) [The Life of the Holy Mother Teresa de Jesús] Frauke Bode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1425
12. Michel de Montaigne: Les Essais (1580, 1588, 1595) [The Essays] Karin Westerwelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1439
13. Francisco Guerrero: El Viage a Hierusalem (1590) [Voyage to Jerusalem] Christiane Wiesenfeldt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1456
14. Avvakum Petrov: Житие протопопа Аввакума, им самим написанное (17th Century) [Life of Avvakum] Erik Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1470
15. John Bunyan: Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1485
16. Anne Halkett: The Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1677–78 (1875) Helga Schwalm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1499
17. Glikl bas Judah Leib: Zikhroynes (1691–1719) [Memoirs] Richard Block Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1511
18. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) Clare Brant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1525
19. Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791 sq.) Volker Depkat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1539
20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Les Confessions (1782/1789) [The Confessions] Christian Moser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1554
21. Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811–1833) [From My Life: Poetry and Truth] Jane K. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1573
22. William Wordsworth: The Prelude (1850) Helga Schwalm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1590
23. Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (1861) Martin Klepper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1603
24. Lev Nikolaevič Tolstoj: Детство (1852) [Childhood] Erik Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1618
25. Ned Kelly: The Jerilderie Letter (1879) Michael Farrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1633
26. August Strindberg: Tjänstekvinnans Son. En Själs Utvecklingshistoria (1886) [The Son of a Servant] Linda Haverty Rugg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1646
27. Mark Twain: Autobiography of Mark Twain (1870–1910) Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1659
28. Franz Kafka: Brief an den Vater (1919) [Letter to His Father] Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1672
29. Alban Berg: Lyric Suite (1925/1926) Nicole Jost-Rösch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1688
30. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: [An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth] Angelika Malinar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1703
31. Walter Benjamin: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert (1930s) [Berlin Childhood around 1900] Michaela Holdenried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1719
32. Hu Shi: 四十自述 (1933) [An Autobiographical Account at Forty] and 胡適口述自傳 (1981) [The Reminiscences of Dr. Hu Shih] Yu Hong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1737
33. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1974) Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1750
34. Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan [“Ajneya”/“Agyeya” (‘Unknowable’)] Angelika Malinar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1762
35. Czesław Miłosz: Rodzinna Europa (1958) [Native Realm] Schamma Schahadat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1777
36. Karen Blixen: Out of Africa (1937) Sophie Wennerscheid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1794
37. Michel Leiris: La Règle du Jeu (1948–1976) [The Rules of the Game] Regine Strätling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1806
38. Albert Memmi: La Statue de Sel (1953) [The Pillar of Salt] Claudia Gronemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1822
39. Hal Porter: The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony: An Australian Autobiography (1963) Jack Bowers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1838
40. Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited (1966) Schamma Schahadat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1851
41. Frank Sargeson: Once is Enough (1973) Lydia Wevers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1866
42. Roland Barthes: roland BARTHES par roland barthes (1975) [Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes] Regine Strätling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1878
43. Imre Kertész: Sorstalanság (1975) [Fateless/Fatelessness] Karl Katschthaler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1892
44. María Teresa León: Memoria de la Melancholia (1970) [Memory of Melancholy] Inke Gunia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1906
45. Wole Soyinka: Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981) Akin Adesokan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1921
46. Jeroen Brouwers: Bezonken Rood (1981) [Sunken Red] Lut Missinne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1932
47. Michael Ondaatje: Running in the Family (1982) Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1948
48. Sally Morgan: My Place (1987) Martina Horáková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1963
49. Serge Doubrovsky: Le Livre Brisé (1989) [The Broken Book] Claudia Gronemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1977
50. Elfriede Jelinek: Ein Sportstück (1998) [Sports Play] Anne Fleig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1989
51. Najīb Maḥfūẓ: أصداء السيرة الذاتية (Aṣdā’ al-sīra al-dhātiyya) (1994) [Echoes of an Autobiography] Susanne Enderwitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2002
52. Walter Kempowski: Das Echolot (1993–2005) [Sonar] Angelika Schaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2016
53. Gabriel García Márquez: Vivir Para Contarla (2002) [Living to Tell the Tale] Cornelia Sieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2030
54. J.M. Coetzee: Boyhood (1997) and Youth (2002) Katja Sarkowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2049
55. Xavier Le Roy: Product of Circumstances (1998/1999) Gabriele Brandstetter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2064
56. Alison Bechdel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) Martin Klepper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2074
57. Jane Alison: The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir (2009) Jack Bowers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2089
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2103
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2105
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	2132
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Preface: The Concept of this Handbook Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V

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January 29, 2019

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9783110279818

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January 29, 2019

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9783110279719

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3 volumes

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40

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279818

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Autobiography; Autofiction

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