The Phenomenology of Autobiography Making it Real

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Synopsis

Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and the initial purpose of autobiography as a means for the author to communicate with a reader and narrate an experience. The study puts autobiography back into a communicational context, and putting forth the notion that one of the reasons why life writing can so often be aesthetically unsatisfactory, or difficult to distinguish from novels, is because it should not be considered as a literary genre, but as a modality with radically different rules and means of evaluation. In other words, not only is autobiography radically different from fiction due to its referentiality, but, first and foremost, it should be read differently.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Author:
Arnaud Schmitt
ISBN:
9781351701020
Related ISBNs:
9781315173504, 9781138710290, 9781138710290
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
178
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-03-13
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Biographies and Memoirs, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction