"Während mit Zwingli im Abendmahl der Zürcher das historische Gedenken an die Stelle der Realpräsenz getreten war, manifestierte sich im Umgang mit Schriftgut eine Verehrung der Dinglichkeit, die schon Zeitgenossen katholisch anmutete. Die im Buch behandelten Selbstzeugnisse ver…
Memorials, literature and cultural practices of reading brings together voices from the Bahia region and its cultural institutions, who combine their individual sensitivities in an effort to bring together the academic dialogue between reading, literature, memory, readers and th…
Why do photographs interest writers, especially autobiographical writers? Ever since their invention, photographs have featured as metaphors, as absent inspirations, and latterly as actual objects in written texts. In autobiographical texts, their presence has raised particularl…
Analyse: Contient un chapitre sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau et l'autobiographie.
Tracing the development of autobiography in French, this book explores the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring challenges: the difficulty of self-scrutiny the self as textual construct, the problem of memory and the influence of other texts and …
Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production. Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key …
