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AUTOBIOGRAFIA – RECONSIDERĂRI TEORETICE ALE MECANISMELOR DE CONSTRUCȚIE ÎN TEXTUL AUTOBIOGRAFIC
Autobiography - Theoretical Reconsiderations of Construction Mechanisms in Autobiographic Text

Author(s): Violeta–Teodora Lungeanu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: autobiography; author; authenticity; discourse

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at organising the theoretical perspectives on autobiography in order to highlight the ways in which this text is blurring the border between the extratextual and intratextual instances, between referential and fictional. We can see, thus, that the autobiographical text obeys as well the fictional constructing mechanisms – detected at each level of the production of the text. The autobiographical project (as logical, chronological and causal discourse) is weakened by the memory/imagination report, by the verbalization of the self and by the action of producing the text. All these elements bring autobiography near to fictional and what we can call writing of life is, from this perspective, a matter of re-composing, more or less, faithful to reality

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 7-16
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian