This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at...
Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the...
In the wake of his murder in December 1170, an extraordinarily large number of Lives of Thomas Becket were produced.They provide an invaluable...
This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th...
A series of numbers was tattooed on prisoners’ forearms only at one location - the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Children, parents...
This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women’s lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by...