期刊全称 | Autofiction in English | 影响因子2023 | Hywel Dix | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Applies a concept that has previously only had significant currency in French literary theory to literature in English.Explores characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a theoretica | 学科分类 | Palgrave Studies in Life Writing | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other areas of French theory, English-language discussion of autofiction has been relatively limited - until now.. .Starting out by exploring the characteristic features and definitions of autofiction. .from a conceptual standpoint, the collection identifies a number of cultural, historical and theoretical contexts in which the emergence of autofiction in English can be understood. In the process, it identifies what is new and distinctive about Anglophone forms of autofiction when compared to its French equivalents. These include a preoccupation with the conditions of authorship; writing after trauma; and a heightened degree of authorial self-reflexivity beyond that typically associated with postmodernism...By concluding that there is such a field as autofiction in English, it provides for the first time detailed analysis of the major works in that field and a concise historical overview of its emergence. It thus opens up n | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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