It is not infrequent The Bios of Autobiography* Janet Varner Gunn / University of North Carolina at Greensboro In a watershed essay of , Georges Gusdorf sets forth what he calls the "conditions" of autobiography. "Autobiography becomes possible," Gusdorf maintains, "only under certain metaphysical preconditions. To begin with, humanity must have emerged.
The theoretical debate about autobiography The world to which Eliade, Kearney, and Gusdorf are referring is thus distinctly pre-autobiographical. The reason is straightforward enough, according to Gusdorf: “Autobiography is not possible in a cultural landscape where consciousness of self does not, properly speaking, exist” (p. 30). This “unconsciousness of personality,”.
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Autobiography becomes possible only under certain metaphysi cal preconditions. To begin with, at the cost of a cultural revolution humanity must have emerged from the mythic framework of tradi tional teachings and must have entered into the perilous domain of history. Dis-Closures. Women's Autobiography in Germany between Autobiography has emerged within a number of educational endeavors as an informing principle which directs both theory and practice. This article argues that despite this activity, there is still.
A History of English Autobiography Georges Gusdorf in "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography," the essay that began modern criticism of the form. But the writing self also stresses its own typicality, those parts of a life that make it representive of its time and place. So French Lessons begins with an evocation TRANSITION ISSUE 68
The central argument of Gusdorf describes au- tobiography as an exclusively Western phenomenon. It seems that autobiography is not to be found outside of our cul- tural area; one would say that it expresses a concern peculiar to Western man, a concern that has been of good use in his system- atic conquest of the universe.
Includes thirteen translated texts Georges Gusdorf, that the autobiographical act spontaneously generates epistemological ambiva- lence. The autobiographer of necessity knows as well as writes about his past from the limited per-.
She begins her own Káñina, Los estudios de las escrituras autobiográficas han aumentado notablemente desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Teóricos y críticos de diversas disciplinas, como la filosofía, la literatura, la psicología, la historia, la antropología y la educación se han dado a la tarea de pensar sobre este tipo de escrituras.