A History of Autobiography in Antiquity

Misch, Georg

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“…More than the simple recounting of the events of a life, the beginning of memoir coincides with the idea that we can communicate something more: our inner consciousness. Confession, for Augustine, was seen as way to disclose identity, a feature that Georg Misch (1951), in what is still one of the fundamental sources in autobiographical studies, made central to his analysis. Linking memoir to Wilhelm Dilthey's philosophical account on the nature of history, Misch endorses the claim according to which in autobiography "the subject inquiring is also the object inquired into" (8), thus framing memoir as the combination of life experiences and self-revelation.…”

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Critical autobiography: a new genre?

Summa-Knoop

2017

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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Memoir, a genre that dates back, arguably, to Augustine's Confessions, if not even earlier, is today enjoying enormous critical as well as popular success. In this essay, I discuss what I see as the most recent ramification of memoir, namely the development of a distinguishable new subgenre which I will call "critical autobiography." Stemming from the long and complex tradition of literary memoirs, the critical autobiography flirts closely with fiction and literary criticism while challenging some of the structural and aesthetic features that characterize more traditional autobiographical works. In the course of this paper, I consider such challenges and their impact on the nature and classification of memoir. Grounding my analysis in genre theory (as opposed to strictly intentionalist classificatory strategies), I outline and defend three contra-standard features of the critical autobiography: critical autobiographies problematize the idea of an authentic confession, they refrain from causal narrative connections, and, lastly, they further contribute to the discussion on the nature of the self by providing a perhaps more scattered, but nonetheless compelling picture of what a contemporary autobiographical self may actually be.

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Critical autobiography: a new genre?

Summa-Knoop

2017

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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“…Os dois últimos, ao lado de Jacques Bompaire (1993) e Laurent Pernot (2006b), também destacam seu caráter autobiográfico. A leitura dos Hieroì Lógoi nesse sentido remonta a Georg Misch (1907). Em vão ele buscava nas autobiografias antigas as 'histórias das almas' de seus autores, mas tornou-se referência sobre o assunto e seu olhar influenciou autores como Festugière (1952, p. 97) e Peter Brown (1993, p. 43), bastante reativos à personalidade de Aristides.…”

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Orientações para o estudo dos Hieroì Lógoi de Aristides: composição, edições, traduções

Guerra

2017

Classica

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resumO: A composição dos Hieroì Lógoi de Élio Aristides (c. 170 E.C.), debatida pela historiografia e pelos estudos clássicos, sinaliza elementos importantes sobre sua especificidade em meio à totalidade dos discursos do autor. A partir da tradição retórica e por meio do gênero da aretalogia e da autobiografia, o autor pretende oferecer um discurso autêntico e enaltecer Asclépio, deus ao qual se oferece como devoto, como paciente e como pupilo. Neste artigo, com o interesse de instrumentalizar o aprofundamento das investigações em torno dessa obra ainda pouco estudada no Brasil, apresentamos um extenso levantamento de seus manuscritos, edições e traduções. Além disso, discutimos alguns problemas relevantes sobre sua condição enquanto documento histórico, principalmente em torno de sua identidade e dos processos de sua composição. paLavras-cHave: Élio Aristides; Hieroì Lógoi; documentação escrita. GuideLines to tHe study of AeLius Aristides'HiERoì LóGoi: composition, editions, trAnsLAtions abstract: The composing of Aelius Aristides' Hieroì Lógoi (c. 170 C.E.), discussed by classical studies and historiography, suggests important features regarding its specificity amongst its author's discourses. From the rhetoric tradition, aratology and autobiography, Aristides intends to offer an authentic discourse and praise Asclepius, god to whom he offers himself as devotee, patient and pupil. This article attempts offer some intelectual instruments as an attempt to contribute to wider investigations on the Hieroì Lógoi, still little studied in Brazil. Therefore, we render offer an extensive survey of its manuscripts, editions and translations. We also discuss some relevant issues related to its condition as a historical document, particularly regardings its identity and composition processes.

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“…Texts in the Latin tradition of first-person conversion narrative, such as Cicero's Somnium Scipionis, Apuleius' Metamorphoses, Boethius' Consolatio and Petrarch's Secretum, along with the Passion of Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicity, could illustrate this tendency. 46 The Ecstasis invites particular doubts about the veracity of the premonitions it narrates, because the narrator himself gives several indications, on his own testimony as well as through other characters, that he was insane. Still there is some equivocation: the same narrator's account of his state of mind after he was locked up in isolation for his own good is unsettling:…”

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Classical Letters and Millenarian Madness in Post-Conquest Mexico: The Ecstasis of Fray Cristóbal Cabrera (1548)

Laird

2016

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The present article incorporates an edition and translation of an extraordinary Latin poem by Fray Cristóbal Cabrera, a humanist scholar and Franciscan missionary who worked in New Spain from the early 1530s until 1546-1547. The Ecstasis, the longest acrostic composition in western literature, is a first-person fiction, reminiscent of Erasmus's Praise of Folly, in which the poet describes an apocalyptic vision of judgement and his slide into madness after an earlier premonition that God's wrath would fall upon Mexico City. The poet professes to reject pagan literature but his sustained engagement with several classical authors, especially Catullus, Virgil and Cicero, provides a key to the interpretation of this enigmatic work.

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A History of Autobiography in Antiquity

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Critical autobiography: a new genre?

Critical autobiography: a new genre?

Orientações para o estudo dos Hieroì Lógoi de Aristides: composição, edições, traduções

Classical Letters and Millenarian Madness in Post-Conquest Mexico: The Ecstasis of Fray Cristóbal Cabrera (1548)

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