›Histoire‹: Bestandteile der Handlung

Klein, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05229-2_27

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“…They consider aspects such as setting, character, motifs and their combination on the level of story ("Histoire") and aspects such as temporal structure and perspective on the level of narrative discourse ("Discours"). 24 Insofar as their approach demonstrates that biographical and fictional narratives can be viewed through the same analytical grid, their approach resonates with Hayden White's famous postulation of the non-distinction between fact and fiction due to their mutual narrativism. 25 Others contest such a view, insisting on a categorical distinction between factual and fictional narratives that can be drawn on formal grounds.…”

Section: Genre Fact and Fictionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Experiments in Life-Writing: Introduction

Novak

2017

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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Other people's life stories fascinate us, and we seem to have an urgent need to record these stories. As writers continue to experiment with the formal and aesthetic possibilities of rendering their subjects' lives in ever new ways, the modes of writing about historical lives have diversified enormously, and continue to do so. The proliferation of public interest in accounts of historical lives in recent decades-captured by such buzzwords as "biography boom" or "memoir craze"-is reflected in the similarly expanding field of life-writing studies, as scholars regularly re-conceptualise their object of study to keep pace with the rapid evolution of life-writing forms and to incorporate the new insights their discipline has yielded. Within this context, the term "life-writing" itself has emerged to reflect the diverse work conducted in the field. It has now come to stand for a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but also letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, court proceedings, . . . marginalia, nonce writings, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms. 1

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Section: Genre Fact and Fictionmentioning

confidence: 92%