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The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge

The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge

Ward, Jean
Ward, Jean
Nycz, Ryszard

Hardcover

Series: Cross-Roads, Book 14

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631674279
ISBN13: 9783631674277
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: May 16 2019
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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