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Boldrini, Lucia and Davies, Peter. 2003. Editors' Introduction. Comparative Critical Studies, 1(3), iv-viii. ISSN 1744-1854 [Article]

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As a genre and as a critical field, autobiography has rarely been written, read and studied with as much intensity and variety of approaches as in the last quarter of a century. The critical and theoretical emphasis on
changing concepts of subjectivity, the role of rhetorical strategies and narrative structures in the representation of self, memory, and history, the re-conceptualisation of the notion and centrality of the ‘author’ (or of its ‘death’), and, not least, the reassessment of the relevance of the
auto/biographical subject in the wake of the various critical fallacies exposed by New Criticism, have led to renewed interest in the forms through which subjects negotiate the desire for self-representation and
the impossibility of evading the fictionalising effects of language and of all activity of self-speculation.

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https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2004.1.3.v