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Irina Schulzki deposited Психопоэтика меланхолии в романе Михаила Шишкина “Записки Ларионова” [Psychopoetics of Melancholy in Mikhail Shishkin’s Novel ‘Notes of Larionov’] in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoСommenting on “Notes of Larionov”, Mikhail Shishkin defined his own authorial role in it as follows: «A novel is a means of finding the way to that very primordial love. The author for the characters is similar to God». One can extrapolate this by saying that the author is not only and not as much God to the fictional characters as a ps…[Read more]
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Voices in War Times: Tracing the Roots of Lusophone Literary Journalism in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay takes a look at the works of four early literary journalists— Portuguese reporters Hermano Neves and Mário Neves, and Brazilian writers Visconde de Taunay and Euclides da Cunha—to trace the foundations of lusophone literary journalism, that is, reportage written primarily in the Portuguese language. Among the findings are that war repo…[Read more]
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Mateus Yuri Passos deposited Glimpses of a New York Emerging from Silence: Joseph Mitchell’s Journalistic Memorial Essay in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis paper discusses ‘Street Life’, ‘Days in the Branch’ and ‘A Place of Pasts’, excerpts fragments from The New Yorker reporter Joseph Mitchell’s unfinished memoir book he started writing during his famous period of silence from 1964 to 1994. Within the scope of Mitchell’s writings, this group of texts may be considered as part of his fourth peri…[Read more]
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Irina Schulzki deposited Жестовость в романе Михаила Шишкина / Gesture in Mikhail Shishkin’s Novel “Taking Izmail” in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe article focuses on aspects of gesture in Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Taking Izmail” (“Vziatie Izmaila”, 1999). The concept of gesture is frequently evoked in search of an alternative to speaking and rational meaning, since gesture, as a figure of muteness by itself, signals the nonsensical in the text and its production problematising the very p…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Karl Ove Knausgaard Literary Celebrity in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoTo make sense of Knausgaard’s meteoric rise, we need to see that his prestige preceded his consecration in the Anglophone literary press.
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Ben Streeter deposited My Struggle: Book Six in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 5 years agoKarl Ove Knausgaard has been crowned “the ideal writer of the present moment.”
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic What’s your story? Calling all Autofiction bloggers in the discussion
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoWhether you have reflections, thoughts on the field of autofiction as a whole, or a compelling narrative that is crying out for an audience, we want to hear from you. We want to use our social media platforms to encourage discussion within the broad community of autofiction.Part of encouraging that discussion is asking you all to contribute your…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help us Brainstorm in the discussion
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoHelp us brainstorm –
As we at the Auto/Fiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Persian Autobiography Syllabus in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis course covers autobiographical writings in Persian from premodern times to contemporary Iran. It reflects the emergence of autobiographical writing in the first days of Islam and an evolving sense of self, identity, and cultural cohesion, and then records transitions within the political/economic power structures in the geographical region.…[Read more]
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Daniel Barrow deposited 10:04: Everyday Life and the Novel as Late Capitalist Limit-Form in the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoGiven on 23/11/2016 at Historical Materialism conference 2016
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak created the group
Autofiction on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
