Fact and fiction in life stories : life writing and its narrative strategies

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. Fact and fiction in life stories : life writing and its narrative strategies. In English Literature Research Seminar, 18th Oct 2018, Victoria University of Wellington. 2018.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Fact and fiction in life stories : life writing and its narrative strategies
• Autoři: FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana.
• Vydání: English Literature Research Seminar, 18th Oct 2018, Victoria University of Wellington, 2018.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Vyžádané přednášky
• Obor: 60205 Literary theory
• Stát vydavatele: Nový Zéland
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Klíčová slova anglicky: life stories; life writing; autofiction; identity; point of view
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam

Anotace

The aim of this talk is to present my research project on life stories and contemporary life writing. I will briefly introduce the concept of identity as a life story that is largely defined by culture and the notion of autobiographical writing as an act of identity construction before moving on to life writing that combines factual and fictional narration. I will outline some of the numerous uses of the concept of autofiction and discuss the mode of fictional meta-autobiography. Drawing on recent fictionality conceptions proposed by rhetorical narratologists, instead of using the extratextual reality as a yardstick, I focus on how texts signal intentional fictionality. The last part of the presentation will concentrate on point of view in autobiographical writing, primarily on the traditional narratological distinction between the narrating I and the experiencing (or narrated) I. I will propose a tentative typology of the relationships between the narrator/teller position and the protagonist/experiencer position in autobiographical texts.