Od autobiografie k autofikci. Narativní strategie vyprávění o vlastním životě
| Title in English | From autobiography to autofiction: Narrative strategies of life narratives |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This monograph focuses on life writing in the context of the turbulent changes in both its practice and reception, including the increasing popularity of autobiographical and autofictional forms. The author relates these transformations to broader cultural developments, such as recent changes in the lived reality and media landscape, but also twentieth-century conceptions of language and the self. The book draws on life writing studies and narrative theory to show how contemporary autobiographical and autofictional narratives engage with the conventions of autobiography as well as general life storying templates. It examines the ways in which texts reflect, represent, and enact self-discovery and self-invention, problems of remembering, or the sense of (dis)continuity of one’s own existence in time. Questions of identity permeate the whole book, which therefore offers an insight not just into contemporary forms of published self-narration, but also into the human process of self-definition and self-image construction. |
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