(Auto)biography and Authority: Dickens and Forster’s Reconstruction of a ‘National Treasure’ by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

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The Fake Diary of a Historical Figure: Klementyna Tańska-Hoffmanowa’s Journal of Countess Françoise Krasińska (1825) by Magdalena Ożarska

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Parler de son vécu à travers la création vidéoludique : une étude du jeu Dys4ia by Rémy Sohier

“…Dys4ia is an autobiographical video game created by Anna Anthropy, dealing with gender dysphoria. …”
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‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno by Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

“…Annie Besant published several autobiographical texts from 1878, starting with the preface to My Path to Atheism, when she was vice-president of the National Secular Society. …”
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Aktywność sportowa i kibicowanie w prozie Krzysztofa Vargi by Tomasz Sahaj

“…Varga’s original work fits into the narrative created by other sports-fan-oriented Polish writers, whose autobiographical works are animated by various literary and cultural-social discourses.…”
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Finding a rhythm within by Jan-Albert van den Berg

“… Intimate, a-rhythm autobiographical experiences, originating from my own life text, serve as initial rhetorical spaces in which possible melodies of persuasion can be heard. …”
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Językowy obraz świata w tekstach Jana Jakuba Rousseau. „Wyznania” jako narracyjne konstruowanie tożsamości by Anna Wasilewska

“…On the one hand Rousseau’s work can be considered as an autobiographical narrative, but on the other hand it can be treated as fiction. …”
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Autographs, Autobiography, and Black History in Britain: the Congo House Autograph Book by Robert Burroughs

“…Though there exist substantial texts written by black people in late-nineteenth-century Britain, including texts of an autobiographical type (broadly defined), self-expressive writings by black people are unquestionably rare. …”
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“What’s in a Name?”: H.D.’s Re-Vision of Shakespeare by Claire Conilleau

“…His plays underwrite H.D.’s autobiographical prose in relation to family, history and identity. …”
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Newman et la conscience dans son roman Callista et dans son sermon « Ce qui dispose à la foi » by Michel Durand

“…The article examines Newman’s skills (and occasional weaknesses) as a novelist, the (relative) value of his historical tableaux and, most importantly, the autobiographical content and the religious dimension of each, in particular Callista (1856). …”
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Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography by Adetayo Alabi

“…How the autobiographical genre develops that umbilical cord that links the Yorubas in Africa and the diaspora through the Ori Olokun episode is also considered. …”
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Early Modern Exemplars: Reading Strategies and the Assertion of Readerly Identity and Authority in the Life-writing of Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert and Elizabeth Isham by Martin Thompson

“…The inclusion of texts that previously sat outside the canon has proved them powerful enough to disrupt and complicate understandings of the genre, and beyond this, the very paradigms upon which the study of autobiographical writing was historically predicated.  …”
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Female Religiosity in Self-Narration: Some Indicative Elements and Suggestions from Empirical Materials by Giorgia Pinelli

“…This study stems from a collection of autobiographical narrations collected during a seminar held in February 2018 involving a small group of adults, representing the three major monotheistic religions: Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam. …”
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Voices in the Machine: Class, Subjectivity and Desire in Victorian Women’s Factory Poems by Fabienne Moine

“…The working-class poets produced a limited but significant number of industrial and largely autobiographical poems too. The first objective of this paper is to present the voices of the upper and middle-class women poets, who show sympathy for the labourers as they try to advance the cause of the female workers. …”
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Dramatic Autobiography: the Poetic Voice Recreating Itself in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The Bride’s Prelude’ by Raphaël Rigal

“…For an author such as Rossetti, who stayed clear of politics most of his life, fake autobiographies might be seen as a way to engage with contemporary issues, through the prism of someone else’s life and borrowed autobiographical voices.…”
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Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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Ovidian intertextuality and metamorphosis in Prudentius by Philip Hardie

“…The personal Praefatio and Epilogus allude mostly to Horace, and hardly at all to Virgil (not surprising, given Horace’s use of first-person genres in autobiographical mode). In this paper I focus on allusion to a poet arguably almost as important for Prudentius as Virgil and Horace, Ovid. …”
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María Zambrano, la révélation de la naissance by Jean Marc Sourdillon

“…María Zambrano, in her autobiographical works, discovers that revelation in her own life. …”
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Sergio Pitol e os disfarces da autobiografia by Rafael Gutiérrez

“…These texts conform a literary autobiography created from a mixture of critic, road diaries and autobiographical narrative. The article analizes the way in which the writer tells his life through his readings and his creative process, the clues about his work that can be found in these texts, as well as the main characteristics and precedents of these hybrid contemporary forms.…”
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Figures de l’exil dans New Grub Street de George Gissing by Christine Huguet

“…In New Grub Street, Gissing’s acknowledged masterpiece combining autobiographical resonances with an insider’s dissection of the contemporary literary scene, estrangement is raised to the level of systematised exile, it is monopolised and articulated as a logical predicate.This paper will look at Gissing’s comprehensive vertical exploration of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in this 1891 novel which, being deeply rooted in material and metaphysical uprooting, tremulously urges the paradox of exile at home.…”
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