Arthur Schnitzler, writer and doctor, tells us in his photograph that mental illnesses are particularly attractive to her for what they have ‘poetic or at least literary’. Based on a variety of tragic facts (an individual who denies his brother), a genuine case of deadly paranoia, Schnitzler wants t...

This thesis focuses on the work of Assis Djebar, one of the greatest representatives of Francophone Maghreb literature. It draws on numerous works on this literature already published by modifying their approach and adding a personal perspective to show how this postcolonial writer renews the repres...

Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta’s most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been “in on the ground floor” of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta, the Historical Society of...

A common feature of Didier-Georges Gabily, Jean-Luc Lagarce and Jean-François Peyret is that they all kept personal diaries between 1977 and 2008. A study of this as of yet unexplored material from the point of view of theatrical studies can help measure the contribution of the diaristic play to the...

This study of the Peace Book poses the generic problem of the trial to try to find out how the formal ambiguity of the text engenders and authorises different readings. After analysing the structure of the book, I am reflecting on the symbols and central metaphors that give unity and complexity to t...

The alpinism, a sport historically practised by men, takes a conquerent and heroic connotation during episodes of conquest new massifs. One of these episodes is the period from the 1950s to 1960s, the golden age of himalayism, which saw a competition between nations for the first rise on the fourtee...

International audience Dentro del mítico viaje a Europa de los escritores argentinos desde Echeverría hasta hoy, Francia y París en particular han ocupado un lugar privilegiado. De los muchos argentinos que cumplieron con el rito iniciático, el París de Victoria Ocampo en su Autobiografía y el de Co...

Even more than in his Mémoires, Bussy-Rabutin gives the summary of his life and loves by collecting in his castle portraits and devises during the exile. The essay focuses on this figurative autobiography, paying attention to contemporary symbolic theory.

Signé Pombo, also titled Dans la Peau de Franco, is a dramatic French creation of Louise Doutreligne freely inspired, as shown in the cover of the edition of Moi, Franco, a title which translated into French the imaginary autobiography of General Franco of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. This article exam...

This monograph on Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer (1719-1775) consists of forteen chapters, that after having given an overall curriculum, depict the various stations in the painter's working process. Special emphasis has been given to such criteria as the socio-economic, political and esthetic impacts, that...

Winner of the 2012 Evans Biography and Handcart Award, Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy so...

Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian writer Jaan Kross (1920–2007) with Russian literature and culture. It includes co...

Atanarjat (2001), winning film Inuit, starts with the following sentence by an elderly Indigena: “I can squeeze this canno so that I dream you understand it.” But, adinal, what is meant in this context “comprennder” or “understandable”? How does the sentence refer to an intelligible language? An und...

On autobiography has been researching for a long time, and for the last forty years, studies have continued to be carried out which corroborate and follow the evolution of gender, including contemporanity, this postmoderity, which all merges it and complicates it, in defining areas and confines. Due...

"titrebSummary '/titrebThe borderline clinic shows an “undesirable” loyalty to the primary object, so that the problem could be: how can we move from memory to deseciography, curb the real grumb by preventing it from becoming a destiny, introduce migration? How can we work on the hatred and feeling...

Our research « Exile in Tomizza's work » analyses the author's production through the concept of exile which, as the main cause and subject of his writing, provides a coherent framework for reading it.Tomizza's work uses fiction as a means of investigating the conflicting components of the author's...

The possibility of an i’i’ offers a sophisticated example of litterical artefacts, comparing the monograph of a contemporary Franc with the comments of post-human clones living two thousand years in the future. The article examines the history of which Michel Houellebecq uses the prod of artefact to...

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Review of The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity by Micaela Maftei

Intellectual peasant, political leader and founder of the militia of Ocros in the 1980s, the Zorro is an emblematic figure of the vicissitudes and ambiguities intrinsic to the internal armed conflict. The heroic narrative he built of himself and its role in this period articulates political and reli...

In what circumstances and why did Robert K. Merton meet the idea of serendipity? What place does it occupy in his work? This article proposes a step-by-step reconstruction of the history of this meeting, which is not lacking irony or pungency. In itself, ‘serendipian’, the accidental but so fertile...

Emily Hawley Gillespie’s diaries offer a rare insight into the daily life of a farmer’s wife in 19th-century Iowa and into the intricate processes of diary writing and memory shaping. This extraordinarily voluminous journal, kept over three decades, was not meant to be a mere record of life and work...

This article makes the case for rethinking object biography in popular music studies. By object biography, I am referring to a particular methodological and analytic approach to material culture that begins from the premise that objects—that is, commodities, goods, artefacts, and so on—have social l...

International audience The Surrealist poet Léo Malet is best known as an author of detective novels and the creator of privatedetective Nestor Burma. While he made few incursions into the fantastic genre proper, the figure of thevampire is outlined in both his poetic and narrative work. We must imag...