Introduction: Autobiography/Autofiction Across Disciplines

Special issue on speech representation in Late Modern English text types: introduction

“… 2 Presser (1958: 286) defines ego documents as ‘those documents in which an ego deliberately or accidentally discloses or hides itself’. Similarly, Depkat (2019: 263) describes them as ‘subjective’ self-referential texts (narratives in the first person), in contrast to ‘objective’ administrative sources, and notes that these testimonies to the self ‘can also include involuntary, outright forced, or indirect disclosures of an ego’ (based on Krusenstjern 1994: 463, 470 in Depkat 2019: 264), which would then also encompass pauper petitions and other letters of a more official nature.…”