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While the twentieth-century Confucian thinker Mou Zongsan (1909U+20131995) has left behind one of the most thought-provoking and intensively studied bodies of philosophical writings in modern Chinese intellectual history, his own life and its relation to his philosophy (or U+201ClearningU+201D), a theme at the centre of his Autobiography at Fifty from the mid1950s, has so far remained largely unexamined. After some introductory remarks on the ...

This article focuses on the Third Reich diaries of the German-Jewish professor of French literature Victor Klemperer. As an epitext (cf. Genette 1992), the diaries show the different production stages of his language-critical study LTI and a commentary of his autobiography Curriculum Vitae. Gérard Genette (1992: 369) understands the diary in general as a „private epitext“, a hermeneutical comment that may offer insightful information and ...

his article proposes a close reading of Olivier Schrauwen's Arsène Schrauwen, focusing on the various cultural discourses that it engages with, and particularly its ironical self-positioning within the field of comics. First of all, Schrauwen playfully questions the entrenchment of autobiography in the contemporary graphic novel by presenting a wholly fantasized adventure as biographical family history. This play with generic expectations is ...

The aim of this paper is to describe Mauro CovacichU+2019s use of self-reflective devices, such as metafiction, autofiction, and autobiography in Prima di sparire, where the author focuses his analysis on the crisis of identity of the contemporary subject, and represents his own crisis on the one hand as a writer and on the other hand as an ordinary person. In this essay, a short introduction to CovacichU+2019s novelist production will ...

This article is based on a long-term research project about texts written and published between 1946 and 2011 by Italian survivors of the concentration camp Flossenbürg. Even though their authors share the autobiographical experience, the point of departure and the justification of the writing process itself, it is striking how many different results can be observed in the written reconstruction in terms of form and content. Some accounts ...