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This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only from Europe, but also the Near East, and Japan. This volume features new views of the complex field of historical autobiography studies, and is the first to put the genre in a global perspective.

Autobiography --- Biography as a literary form. --- Authorship. --- Literary semiotics --- History of civilization --- Non-fiction --- Biography as a literary form --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Autobiography - Authorship

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Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.

Actors --- Dramatists, Indic --- Autobiography --- Theater --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Indic dramatists --- Indic authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Authors, Indic

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Biographisches Erz Hlen - Zwischen Individuellem Erlebnis Und Kollektiver Geschichtentradition: Untersuchung Typischer Erz Hlfiguren, Ihrer Sprachlichen Form Und Ihrer Interaktiven Und Identit Tskonstituierenden Funktion in Geschichten Und Lebensgeschichten.

German prose literature --- Biography as a literary form --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Biography as a literary form. --- History and criticism. --- German prose literature - History and criticism

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Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980's and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an epoch. In a major new work on private life and personal writings, Irina Paperno explores this massive outpouring of human documents to uncover common themes, cultural trends, and literary forms. The book argues that, diverse as they are, these narratives-memoirs, diaries, notes, blogs-assert the historical significance of intimate lives shaped by catastrophic political forces, especially the Terror under Stalin and World War II. Moreover, these published personal documents create a community where those who lived through the Soviet era can gain access to the inner recesses of one another's lives. This community strives to forge a link to the tradition of Russia's nineteenth-century intelligentsia; thus the Russian "intelligentsia" emerges as an additional implicit subject of this book. The book surveys hundreds of personal accounts and focuses on two in particular, chosen for their exceptional quality, scope, and emotional power. Notes about Anna Akhmatova is the diary Lidiia Chukovskaia, a professional editor, kept to document the day-to-day life of her friend, the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Evgeniia Kiseleva, a barely literate former peasant, kept records in notebooks with the thought of crafting a movie script from the story of her life. The striking parallels and contrasts between these two documents demonstrate how the Soviet state and the idea of history shaped very different lives and very different life stories. The book also analyzes dreams (most of them terror dreams) recounted in the diaries and memoirs of authors ranging from a peasant to well-known writers, a Party leader, and Stalin himself. History, Paperno shows, invaded their dreams, too. With a sure grasp of Russian cultural history, great sensitivity to the men and women who wrote, and a command of European and American scholarship on life writing, Paperno places diaries and memoirs of the Soviet experience in a rich historical and conceptual frame. An important and lasting contribution to the history of Russian culture at the end of an epoch, Stories of the Soviet Experience also illuminates the general logic and specific uses of personal narratives.

Autobiographical memory --- Autobiography. --- Russian prose literature --- Memory --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Soviet Union --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Intellectual life --- History --- Russian authors. --- Autobiography of Russians --- Russian autobiography