Wang Jiao, W AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS A LITERARY GENRE: ESSENCES, VARIETIES AND MODERN MODIFICATIONS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 3 (180). P. 49–53. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.308


Literary studies

AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS A LITERARY GENRE: ESSENCES, VARIETIES AND MODERN MODIFICATIONS

Wang Jiao
Wang Jiao 		Lomonosov Moscow State University
Keywords:
Autobiographical genre
author’s documents
novel
autofiction
philological novel
new autobiographism
dirty histories		 Summary: In this article the autobiography is regarded as a literary genre, which entered the literary process at the late 18th and early 19th century. Mixedness, artistry and subjectivity are described as the most important structural components of autobiography and accordingly three its main varieties are interpreted: autobiography, which is combined with author’s documents; autobiography, which is associated with artistic genres; and autofiction. The special attention is paid to research into autobiographical modifications that are observed in the modern Russian literature. The mixture of autobiography with documentary genres, romantic narrative by the writer-philologist about one’s own life, perceptions of the generation’s dirty histories as one’s own – they are those problems that are analyzed in depth.



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