The Autobiographical Triangle : : Witness, Confession, Challenge / / Stanley Bill, Malgorzata Czerminska ; Jean Ward, translator.

• Superior document: Cross-roads (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• VerfasserIn: Bill, Stanley,; Czerminska, Malgorzata,
• TeilnehmendeR: Czerminska, Malgorzata,; Ward, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cross-roads (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 pages).

The book presents a universal theory of autobiography which has a "triangular" model. Three stances: witness, confession and challenge to the reader, are always present, though usually one is dominant. Polish autobiographical writing is seen in relation to European autobiographies and against the background of history.

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright information; Translator's Foreword; Contents; Introduction; Part One Three Autobiographical Stances; 1. The Field of Non-Fiction Prose; Literature of Fact; Literature of Personal Document; The Essay; 2. The Autobiographical Triangle: Witness, Confession, Challenge; The Rhetorical Sources of the Three Stances; Interchangeability of Autobiographical Stances; Gombrowicz Throws Down the Gauntlet; Then Who Is the Addressee of the Diary's Challenge?; Diaries after Gombrowicz; Part Two Confessions, Confidences, Dreams 1. The Spiritual Autobiography in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature 1The Mystical Autobiography; The Spiritual Autobiography; Protestant and Catholic Traditions Meet: John Henry Newman; The Memoir; The Library; Conclusion; 2. Intertextual Connections in the Spiritual Autobiography; Four Types of Intertextual Allusion; A Case of a Dense Network of Allusions; Part Three Witness Inscribed in Place; 1. Autobiographical Places and the Topographic Imagination:; Individual Places of Memory; The Topographic Imagination; Types of Autobiographical Place 2. Home in the Autobiography and the Novel about ChildhoodInside the House; The Garden of Childhood; The Land of Childhood; Arriving Homecoming; The Death Knell for the Home of Childhood; 3. Larders of Memory:; Idyll and Tragedy: the Memory of the Borderlands; A Hint of the Grotesque and the Invasion of History; An Attempt At Epic Distance: Towards a Deconstruction of the Myth; 4. The Centre and the Borderland Periphery in the Prose of Writers Born after World War II; Polish Writers Whose Home Is the City of G ü nter Grass; Describing Childhood after Yalta The Disturbance of the Borderlands Reaches the Centre5. Space Disturbed:; The End and the Beginning; Written Now, Written Then; Time and Space after Yalta; From East to West and to Other Corners of the Earth; Encounters with Foreignness; Jews Who Survived; Disturbances in the Centre; Part Four Testimonies Inscribed in Historical Time: Challenges; 1. "Speaking a Memoir": Janusz Korczak's Autobiographical Stance; The Role of the Personal in Korczak's Writing; The Veiling/Unveiling of Personal Experience in the Stories; A Network of Four Oppositions; Autobiography Read Through Obituary 2. How to Write about the Sins of One's Youth or a Year with Konwicki, a Year with Mi ł oszThe Long Shadow of Stalinism; A Public Confession in a Private Diary?; A Diary of One Year as a Closed Form; Flaw, Shame, Reckoning; 3. The Provocative Testimony of Leopold Tyrmand; Tyrmand's Triumphal Return In Diary 1954; The Great Debate on the Authenticity of Diary 1954; Part Five On the Fringes of the Autobiographical Triangle: An Epilogue in Three Parts; 1. The Letter and the Novel; The Letter and the Epistolary Novel; The Reader of a Collection of Correspondence.