“A word-web woven”: Autobiography in Old English Poetry

A retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning his own existence, focusing on the individual life, in particular on the development of his personality. (Lejeune 193)Today Philippe Lejeune's concise definition of “autobiography” raises many problems of ontology, psychology...

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Yayımlandı:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea,
Yazar: HOLDERNESS, Graham
Materyal Türü: Article ou chapitre numérique
Dil:Anglais
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: E-rea 2012
Online Erişim:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Özet:A retrospective prose narrative produced by a real person concerning his own existence, focusing on the individual life, in particular on the development of his personality. (Lejeune 193)Today Philippe Lejeune's concise definition of “autobiography” raises many problems of ontology, psychology and gender. Terms such as “real person”, “own existence”, “development of (…) personality” could no longer be so innocently employed. Nor would it be legitimate to imply, if only grammatically, that au...