Authorship, Autobiography and the Archive

Autocitation and Autobiography

The life-experience shared by Dante and Forese thus assumes a metaphoric value in the Comedy that bears little relation to anything we know about the two men. Forese stands in Dante's personal lexicon for his own compromised historical identity, the fosti meco, equal io teco fui"-brought painfully into the present-"il memorar presente." Their life together represents everything the saved soul r...

The Autobiography of David

This intensely human and at times moving document should he read by all psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric social workers, Local Authority Mental Health Committee members and the framers of our new National Health Service. It contains the edited writings of a sufferer from a severe obsessive compulsive state, whose main symptoms are fear of open spaces and a compulsion to indecen...

Autocitation and Autobiography

so that the literary and literal moments of the poet's life are fused together in a highly suggestive pattern. In the same way that the personal encounters of the Comedy have furnished clues to Dante's actual biography-for instance, by alloWing us to date the canzone "Voi che 'ntendendo" with respect to the year in which Charles Martel visited Florence-the Comedy's autocitations may furnish clu...

Autistic autobiography.

Autism narratives are not just stories or histories, describing a given reality. They are creating the language in which to describe the experience of autism, and hence helping to forge the concepts in which to think autism. This paper focuses on a series of autobiographies that began with Grandin's Emergence. These are often said to show us autism from the 'inside'. The paper proposes that ins...

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