TY  - BOOK
AU  - Małgorzata Czermińska
AU  - Jean Ward
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-6179
SN  - 9783653068351
TI  - The Autobiographical Triangle
T2  - Witness, Confession, Challenge
DO  - 10.3726/b15550
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113530
N2  - 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.
KW  - Non-fiction prose, Personal writing, Literature and migration, Literature and space, Literature and history, Centre and periphery
LA  - English
ER  -